5 Feb 2009 17:00
AIM Release 5 February 2009
Oxus Gold plc ('Oxus' or 'the Company')
Director Shareholdings and Additional Listing
London: 5 February 2009 - Oxus Gold Plc ("Oxus"or the "Company") (OXS.L) announces that application has been made for 978,810 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company to be admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange. The shares were allotted to directors and senior management of the Company on 5 February 2009 at 7.657p in lieu of fees and salaries for the period October to December 2008 further to the announcement on 8 December 2008:
Included in this amount are shares allotted to directors as follows
Director Shares Issued Resultant Holding Resultant %
Richard Wilkins 144,078 4,347,863 1.14
Jonathan Kipps 114,994 3,481,883 0.91
John Donald 189,257 309,257 0.08
Richard Shead 148,166 707,166 0.19
Oliver Prior 13,484 120,106 0.03
Miradil Djalalov 22,855 22,855 0.01
The shares were issued at the average mid-market price for the period October to December 2008.
The new shares will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares and dealings are expected to commence in the new ordinary shares on 11 February 2009
Following the allotment of the above new ordinary shares, the Company's issued share capital will be 382,418,495 ordinary shares of 1p each.
For further information, please contact:
| Oxus Gold plc Richard Wilkins (CEO) | Tel: +44 (0) 207 907 2000 |
| Fairfax I.S. PLC Ewan Leggat | Tel: +44 (0) 207 598 5368 |
| Conduit PR Ltd Fiona Hyland/ Ed Portman | Tel: +44 (0) 207 429 6606 |