Besra Farewells CFO Jane Bell

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Apr 28, 2014) - Besra (TSX:BEZ)(ASX:BEZ)(FRANKFURT:OP6) CEO, John Seton, regretfully advises the impending departure of the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Jane Bell.

Seton said, "Jane is one of our longest-serving employees and I am saddened to have to announce that she will be leaving the company at the end of April. Pending the appointment of a new CFO, we have engaged our former CFO Peter Tiedemann to oversee the operations of the finance department.

"Jane joined the Company in 2007, and oversaw the shareholder consent documentation and the amalgamation of Zedex and Olympus to form the new entity Besra, the conversion of reporting from Canadian GAAP to IFRS and the implementation of our ERP system Abel with its integrated online approvals.

"She also planned and implemented the revision of corporate policies and revamp of SOX systems, restructuring the accounting and reporting departments to take Group reporting from quarterly to monthly within 10 days of month end.

"In making these changes we saw the reduction in failures to comply with Besra Board directed internal controls from "significant errors" in 2009, which had our controls rated as "ineffective", to virtually no failures when independently tested in 2012 & 2013. In this she moved Besra to a new level of professionalism.

"Jane has been an integral part of senior management, an important contributor to the development of our company, and has the Board of Directors' sincere gratitude for her dedication and commitment to achieving our vision."

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Besra is a diversified gold mining company focused on the exploration, development and mining of mineral properties in South East Asia. The Company has four key properties; the Bau Goldfield in East Malaysia, Bong Mieu and Phuoc Son in Central Vietnam, and Capcapo in the Philippines. Besra expects to expand existing gold capacity in Vietnam over the next two years and is projecting new production capacity from the Bau gold project during 2016.

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