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Standard Chartered PLC 05 July 2006 Standard Chartered PLC 1995 Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust (the 'Trust') This is to advise you that Bedell Cristin Trustees Limited, the Trustee of the Company's employee benefit trust used in connection with some of the Company's employee share schemes has advised under a notification dated 4 July 2006 that between 17 May 2006 and 30 June 2006 they disposed of a total of 569,363 Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each. These shares were disposed of in connection with some of the Company's employee share schemes. Following this transaction the Trust held a total of 5,104,262 unallocated Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each. The following directors together with all employees are potential beneficiaries of the Trust and as a result of this transaction there has been a change in the number of shares they are interested in, however the directors were not connected with the transaction detailed above: Bryan Sanderson, Mervyn Davies, Mike DeNoma, Richard Meddings, Kai Nargolwala and Peter Sands Charles B Brown Group Company Secretary 5 July 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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