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EANS-News: EuroGas to Initiate Legal Action against V.S.K. Mining and Affiliates in the United States and Austria

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New York, NY-- May 8, 2009--.EuroGas, Inc.
(Other OTC: EUGS; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EUG.F; XETRA: 
{EUG.DE}[HYPERLINK: http://EUG.DE]; Hamburg Stock Exchange: EUG.H; 
and, Stuttgart Stock Exchange; {EUG.SG}[HYPERLINK: http://EUG.SG]) 
today announced that it has instructed its legal counsel in the 
United States and Austria to undertake legal action for industrial 
espionage and fraud against VSK Mining s.r.o., its shareholders VSK 
Mining Limited Cyprus andSchmid Industrieholding Austria GmbH, as 
well asVSK Mining's employee and Project Manager Peter Corej and his 
wife Zdenka Corejeva (the VSK Group) in relation to their involvement
with the illegal cancellation of Rozmin s.r.o.'s valid mining 
concession at the Gemerska Poloma talc deposit in the Slovak 
Republic. Rozmin is a Slovak mining company which is 90% owned 
directly by EuroGas, Inc. or its affiliates (the EuroGas Group).
Recent information obtained from a deposition taken by the Slovak 
Republic police from Mr. Peter Corej, a former affiliate and employee
of the EuroGas Group, revealed that Mr. Corej has admitted, under 
oath, to have illegally taken important, proprietary and confidential
business documents and geological materials, belonging exclusively to
the EuroGas Group, that he then used in his successful bidto obtain a
new talc mining concession at Gemerska Poloma in the Slovak Republic 
in April 2005 for Economy Agency RV s.r.o., a company owned by his 
wife Ms. Corejeva. This bid was made after theMinistry ofEconomy's 
Mining Office at Spisska Nova Ves had illegally cancelled Rozmin's 
legal and validconcession in December 2004.
The cancellation of Rozmin's valid mining concession and the granting
of a new mining concession toEconomy Agency were ruled to have been 
illegal by the Supreme Courtof the Slovak Republic in a 
non-appealable February 2008 ruling which ordered the Ministry of 
Economy's Mining Office at Spisska Nova Ves to correct this matter 
forthwith.
EuroGas fully expects that the non-appealable Slovak Supreme Court 
ruling will result in the return of the Gemerska Poloma talc deposit 
to its rightful owner Rozmin without further delay. The legal action 
against VSK Mining and its affiliates that is being launched is a 
distinct and separate action whose objective is to recover the 
substantial damages in the amount of appr. $ 150 Mill. incurred by 
the EuroGas Group since 2005, as a direct result of the loss of the 
Rozmin concession caused by the illegal actions of the VSK Group.
Subsequent to obtaining the new mining concession for Economy Agency,
Mr. Corej - according to his admissions under oath in the Slovak 
police deposition- successfully negotiated an amalgamation of Economy
Agency with VSK Mining, which became the owner, as the legal 
successor to Economy Agency, to the talc mining concession at 
Gemerska Poloma, one of the largest and purest talc ore bodies in the
world. According to his admissions under oath, Mr. Corej provided 
EuroGas Group's exclusive proprietary and confidential business 
documents and geological materials to VSK Mining and allowed VSK 
Mining to use this information for its own benefit and profit.
VSK Mining is 75% owned by VSK Mining Limited Cyprus, a company owned
by the Industrial Group of Dr. Jacek Engel. The balance of 25% in VSK
Mining s.r.o. is held bySchmid Industrieholding,a large construction 
material company of Wopfing , Austria . In addition to the 
investigation by the District Attorney's Office of the Slovak 
Republic into the illegal activities of Mr. Corej and his wife Ms. 
Corejeva, EuroGas has learned that there are currently active police 
investigations by the Slovak Police to determine the extent, if any, 
of the involvement of certain officials of the Ministry of Economy's 
Mining Offices in this matter.
Wolfgang Rauball, Chairman and Chief Excecutive Officer of EuroGas 
Inc. comments : "Thanks to the excellent results of the police 
investigation in the Slovak Republic and the expeditious work of the 
Slovak police authorities, I am convinced that our damage lawsuit 
against VSK Mining, its affiliates and the participating individuals 
will be successful. Furthermore I am confident that we will be still 
this year see the return of the Gemerska Poloma talc mine in Roznava 
to the EuroGas Group and that we will start producing talc together 
with our industrial partner Mondo Minerals.?
In March 2009 EuroGas had entered into a long-term exclusive talc 
delivery agreement with Mondo Minerals B.V., one of the leading talc 
producers and talc refiners worldwide. The agreement calls for talc 
delivery of a minimum of 60.000 tons of pure raw talc by the EuroGas 
Group for an initial period of 10 years with an option for Mondo 
Minerals to prolongue the agreement for an additional 20 years. 
Additionally EuroGas has granted Mondo Minerals a right of first 
refusal to acquire Rozmin s.r.o. in case EuroGas wants to divest its 
investment in Rozmin. About EuroGas, Inc. EuroGas is a publicly 
traded oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine and Poland , as 
well as talc mining interests in the Slovak Republic and mining 
properties in Arizona . The company's common stock trades on the 
Frankfurt and Hamburg Stock Exchanges and Xetra in Germany under the 
symbol EUG and on the Other OTC (Pink Sheets) in the United States 
under the symbol EUGS. Further information about EuroGas can be found
at {www.eurogasinc.com}[HYPERLINK: http://www.eurogasinc.com] " Safe 
Harbor " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995: This press release includes forward-looking statements 
intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by
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identify forward-looking statements by their use of the 
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discuss future expectations, contain projections regarding future 
developments, operations, or financial conditions, or state other 
forward-looking information. When considering the forward-looking 
statements made in this press release, you should keep in mind the 
risks noted and other cautionary statements throughout this press 
release. You should also keep in mind that all forward-looking 
statements are based on management's existing beliefs about present 
and future events outside of management's control and on assumptions 
that may prove to be incorrect. If one or more risks identified in 
this press release or other filing materializes, or any other 
underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results may vary 
materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected, or intend 
For further information, please contact: Wolfgang Rauball President &
CEO, EuroGas, Inc Telephone: (212) 618-1274
end of announcement                               euro adhoc

Further inquiry note:

For further information, please contact:
Wolfgang Rauball
President & CEO, EuroGas, Inc
Telephone: (212) 618-1274

Branche: Energy
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