A consultant for British gold developer Oxus Gold (OXS-L) was shot and wounded in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Friday, sustaining injuries to his liver and kidney.
Sean Daley, who had been leading negotiations for Oxus in its dispute with the Kyrgyz government over development of the Jerooy gold deposit, had surgery to remove a kidney and was at the National Surgical Centre in Bishkek.
Oxus, in a prepared statement, said it thought the shooting would not affect negotiations with the government, which revoked Oxus’s development licence late last year. The government said Oxus had not met the agreed development schedule for Jerooy, and released its mining agency, Kyrgyzaltyn, to find another partner for the project. Oxus has since served notice that it would send the dispute to arbitration under a governing investment treaty between Kyrgyzstan and the United Kingdom.
Four members of the Kyrgyz parliament have been killed in shootings in the last 18 months, since political unrest toppled president Askar Akayev.
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