Chaarat Gold : PDMR/Director shareholding

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited ("Chaarat" or the "Company") Director/PDMR shareholding

Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (30th January 2017)

Chaarat (AIM - CGH), the AIM quoted exploration and development company with assets in the Kyrgyz Republic, was informed on 27th January that as of that day Labro Investments Limited ("Labro") held 117,236,252 ordinary shares of US$0.01 each, representing 33% of the issued share capital of the Company, following purchases on 26th January of 50,000 ordinary shares at a price of

11.25 pence per share and 50,000 ordinary shares at a price of 11.45 pence per share.

Martin Andersson (the Chairman of Chaarat) is indirectly beneficially interested in the majority of the shares in Labro.

In accordance with the announcement dated 27 September 2016, a further 8,241,316 ordinary shares of US$0.01 each may be acquired by the concert party within a period of six months from 1 October 2016 without triggering a requirement to make a mandatory offer under the Articles of Association of the Company.

Enquiries:

Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited	+ 44 (0) 20 7499 2612
c/o Central Asia Services Limited	[e-mail]
Dekel Golan CEO Linda Naylor FD
[phone]
Numis Securities Limited
John Prior, Paul Gillam (NOMAD) James Black (Broker)

About Chaarat Gold

Chaarat Gold is an exploration and development company operating in the Kyrgyz Republic with a large, high grade resource - the Chaarat Gold Project. The Company's key objective is to become a low cost gold producer generating significant production from the development of the Chaarat Gold Project. Chaarat is engaged in an active community engagement programme to optimise the value of the Chaarat investment proposition.

Chaarat aims to create value for its shareholders, employees and communities from its high quality gold and mineral deposits in the Kyrgyz Republic by building relationships based on trust and operating to the best environmental, social and employment standards.

Further information is available at www.chaarat.com

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Labro Investments Limited
Reason for the notification
a)	Position / status	Person/Entity closely associated with the Chairman
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial notification
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited
b)	Legal entity identifier	213800T2A5CV84VTFJ70
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary shares of US$0.01 each
	Identification code	VGG203461055
b)	Nature of the transaction	Acquisition of ordinary shares in the market
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		11.25 11.4524	50,000 50,000
e)	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Aggregated price Aggregated total	100,000 11.35 pence £11,351.20
f)	Date of the transaction	26 January 2017
g)	Place of the transaction	XLON