Director's Dealings

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited

("Chaarat" or "the Company")

Director's dealings

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (28 June 2012).

Chaarat (AIM-CGH), the gold exploration and development company operating in the Kyrgyz Republic, was notified on 27 June 2012 that, on 26 June, Christopher Palmer-Tomkinson, the Company's Non-Executive Chairman gifted, at nil cost, 4,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.01 each in the Company ("Shares") to members of his direct family. As a result of the gift, Mr Palmer-Tomkinson has a beneficial interest in 6,100,000 Shares representing approximately 2.4% of the Company's issued share capital.

Enquiries:  

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited	[phone]
c/o Central Asia Services Limited
Dekel Golan   CEO	[e-mail]
Linda Naylor  FD	[e-mail]
Numis Securities Limited	[phone]
Alastair Stratton, Stuart Skinner (NOMAD)
James Black (Broker)
Bankside Consultants	[phone]
Simon Rothschild	[e-mail]

Note to Editors:

About Chaarat Gold

Chaarat Gold is an exploration and development company operating in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Company's main activity is the development of the Chaarat Gold Project situated within the Middle Tien Shan Mountains, which form part of the Tien Shan gold belt. A JORC compliant mineral resource of 5.590Moz at a grade of 4.08g/t gold has been delineated at the Chaarat Gold Project. Chaarat's key objective is to become a low cost gold producer; with initial production from the Tulkubash project, targeting increased combined annual production of over 200,000 ounces as the full project comes on stream.

In addition to the Chaarat Gold Project, the Company has initiated an exploration programme at Chontash, located in the Akshirak range of mountains of the Kyrgyz Republic. A maiden resource for Chontash was compiled by Wardell Armstrong International and announced in April 2011.

Further information is available at www.chaarat.com

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