Oxus Gold Plc Regulatory News (OXS)

RNS Number : 7758O

Oxus Gold PLC

02 July 2010

 

Oxus Gold plc ('Oxus' or 'the Company')

 

Directors' Shareholdings and Issue of Equity

 

London: 2 July 2010 - Oxus Gold Plc ("Oxus"or the "Company") (OXS.L) announces that application has today been made for 828,836 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company to be admitted to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Further to the announcement on 8 December 2008, the new shares were allotted to Directors and senior management of the Company on 2 July 2010 at a price of 7.167p per share in lieu of fees and salaries for the period 1 April 2010 to 30 June 2010.

 

Included in this amount are shares allotted to Directors as follows

Director	New ordinary shares issued	Total beneficial shareholding	Percentage of the issued share capital
Richard Wilkins	68,490	4,943,537	1.25
Richard Shead	348,787	2,297,997	0.58
Oliver Prior	28,810	252,694	0.06
Miradil Djalalov	48,830	247,577	0.06
Jim McBurney	33,693	133,836	0.03

 

The shares were issued at the average mid-market price for the period 1 April 2010 to 30 June 2010.

 

The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares and dealings are expected to commence in the new ordinary shares on 8 July 2010.

 

Following the allotment of the above new ordinary shares, the Company's total voting share capital in issue will be 397,015,121 ordinary shares of 1p each.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Oxus Gold Plc

Tel: +44 (0) 207 907 2000

Richard Wilkins (FD)

 

Fairfax I.S. PLC

Tel: +44 (0) 207 598 5368

Ewan Leggat/Laura Littley

 

Conduit PR Ltd

Tel: +44 (0) 207 429 6606

Ed Portman

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