Don't ‘bank’ on Kazakhstan money

Almaty, Oct 19: The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word ‘bank’ on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday.

The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them for correction.

The move has drawn the ire of the State’s politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

"The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones," a letter from MPs to the President said. "We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language."

—Reuters