Oxus Gold Plc Regulatory News (OXS)

RNS Number : 9117T

Oxus Gold PLC

06 October 2010

 

Oxus Gold plc

 

Directors' Shareholdings and Issue of Equity

 

London: 6 October 2010 - Oxus Gold Plc ("Oxus"or the "Company") (OXS.L) announces that application has today been made for 909,862 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 5 October 2010 at a price of 6.426p per share in lieu of fees and salaries for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 September 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	76,383	5,019,920	1.26
Richard Shead	388,998	2,686,995	0.68
Oliver Prior	32,131	284,825	0.07
Miradil Djalalov	54,460	302,037	0.08
Jim McBurney	37,577	171,413	0.04

 

The shares were issued at the average mid-market price for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 September 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 11 October 2010.

 

Following the allotment of the above new ordinary shares, the Company's total voting share capital in issue will be 397,924,983 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

 

Conduit PR Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 207 429 6606

Ed Portman

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