Manas Petroleum Corp.

Baar, Switzerland, September 22nd, 2009. 
Shares of Manas Petroleum Corp. (OTC:MNAP) have been shorted "naked",  which involves selling a stock short but without the usual step of initially borrowing or locating the shares. As the shorted shares were not obtained within the required time frame it resulted in a "fail to deliver". 

This is an illegal practice. We have informed on Friday Sept 18th the market regulation department of the SEC and the FINRA. We do not expect a report of these regulators until such issue is resolved.

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Contact:
Erik Herlyn, CEO
Manas Petroleum Corp.
Bahnhofstr. 9 
P.O. Box 155
CH-6341 Baar
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 718 1030
Fax: +41 44 718 1039
Email: info@manaspete.com
Web: www.manaspete.com