OREANDA-NEWS. On January 22, 2009 Company KAZAKHMYS PLC, common shares of which are present in Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) official list, provided to KASE the following information, reported the press-centre of KASE:
 
On January 9, 2009, the British financial market regulator Financial Services Authority (FSA) amended the information disclosure rules, according to which companies directors, registered on London Stock Exchange, now must disclose the information on their share pledges. In addition, companies are obliged to inform the market on all existing at present cases of share pledges till January 23 of the current year.

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.