According to Deputy Head of Baiterek Nurbolat Aidapkelov, the sale of Bereke Bank to Lesha Bank for $146.2 million was good for both the holding and Kazakhstan as a whole.
«Given that we have acquired the bank, let’s say, for one tenge, what we managed to earn from the deal [65 billion tenge or $146.2 million] is very good. I mean, we have bought the bank almost for nothing,» he said.
As the official noted, not a single penny from the state budget was spent on acquiring the former subsidiary of Russian Sberbank in September...