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CIC buys stake in Kazakh oil and gas group

By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and Isabel Gorst in Moscow

Published: September 30 2009 07:23 | Last updated: September 30 2009 13:42

China Investment Corp, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has bought an 11 per cent stake in London-listed JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production, marking its third global investment in natural resources assets in just one week.

CIC said it paid $939m to buy London-traded Global Depositary Receipts in the Kazakhstan-based oil and gas company, marking a further advance by China into the hotly contested central Asian energy sector. 

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