NOTIFICATION OF THE COUNCUL AND MANAGEMENT BOARD


In connection with the publication of information in respect of JSC „Ditton     
pievadķēžu rūpnīca” in the newspaper „Diena”, article „There have not been so   
bad times”, on April 25, 2008, No.97 (5139)), the Council and the Management    
Board is informing about the following:                                         

1. Information content of the article has not been coordinated with the company 
and it is solely personal opinion of the authors of the article and persons,    
which have been referred to by them in the article.                             

2. Information about the loss of partnership relations with the public          
joint-stock company „AVTOVAZ” (there is distorted the name of the company to VAZ
in the publication) does not represent the facts. The sources of this           
information are not known to us. Director of Daugavpils Regional Office of the  
Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vladimirs Nadeždins has not made any   
statements in respect of the JSC “Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca”, all the more has  
not commented relations of the JSC „Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca” with its         
partners.                                                                       

The Council and the Management Board of the company would like to draw attention
of investors and other participants of the financial instruments market to the  
cases of publication of distorted information about the company, which have     
become more frequent, and for estimation of activity of the company and         
situation in it call to be guided by official information of the Council and the
Management Board of the company.                                                

The Council and the Management Board                                            
of the JSC „Ditton pievadķēžu rūpnīca”
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