OREANDA-NEWS. On 22 January 2009 was announced, that in response to the recent clarification on the disclosure obligations published by the Financial Services Authority in January 2009, Kazakhmys PLC (“Kazakhmys” or the “Company”) announces that Vladimir Kim, Chairman of Kazakhmys, has pledged 19,541,813 shares in the Company and Oleg Novachuk, Chief Executive of Kazakhmys, has pledged 29,706,848 shares in the Company to support loans.  This represents less than 20% of shares held by management and 9% of total shares outstanding.

The Company will continue to report in accordance with the new clarification.