ChinaCast Education Corporation Completes $2.15 Million Financing

BEIJING, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaCast Education ("ChinaCast" or the "Company", OTC: CAST), a post-secondary education services provider in China, today announced the closing of a $2.15 million private offering of its Notes and Warrants.

The Notes and Warrants were sold in a private offering to investors, which included many of the Company's long term shareholders, Company Directors, and the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

The Company intends to use the proceeds from the sale of the Notes to:

• Fund the efforts to retain ownership of schools invalidly removed from the Company
• Fund the efforts to recover cash balances illegally removed from the Company
• Fund the pursuit of criminal charges against Ron Chan, Jiang Xiangyuan and others
• Fund the payment of professional service providers, payroll and other vendors  

The Company relied upon the exemption from registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, to effect the sale and issuance of the Notes and Warrants.  The Notes and Warrants have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdictions, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.  This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Notes or the Warrants, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.

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SOURCE ChinaCast Education Corporation