OREANDA-NEWS. By the decision of the Board of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) beginning September 25, 2008 Almaty Investment Management (Almaty) was freed of execution of duties of KASE market maker on common shares KZ1C34920013 (BTAS) of BTA Bank (Almaty), traded in the KASE official list in the first category, reported the press-centre of KASE.

This decision was made in accordance with item 16 of article 5 of the KASE internal document "Rules on Market Maker Activity" on the basis of market maker application.