22 Dec 2009 15:05
22 December 2009
AIM Rule 17 Disclosure
In accordance with AIM Rule 17, the Company announces that Mr Ami Mpungwe, Executive Chairman of the Company, has informed the Company that, in October 2009, AFGEM Limited ('AFGEM'), a company of which Mr Ami Mpungwe is a director was placed into compulsory liquidation. Mr Mpungwe has remained as a non-executive director of AFGEM following the sale of its tanzanite business to the Company in 2004.
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