Mexican Prosecutor Rules On Criminal Misconduct Case Finds No Grounds For Prosecution - Case Is Closed

February 9, 2009 - Vancouver, BC - Farallon Resources Ltd. ("Farallon" or the "Company") (TSX: FAN) announces that the Prosecutor General's Office in Hermosillo, Sonora State, Mexico has issued a ruling, reaffirming a previous ruling dated October 15, 2007 (see News Release dated November 6, 2007) finding no evidence of any criminal misconduct in a complaint filed by David L. Hermiston in 1999. The ruling re-states that there are no grounds whatsoever for criminal prosecution against Farallon or any of its Directors in the matter.
On December 15, 2008, the Second Collegial Tribunal for Criminal and Administrative Matters for the Fifth Circuit sitting in Hermosillo, Sonora entered judgment on the Criminal Review Constitutional Relief [Amparo] Petition filed by David Leslie Hermiston Chester, identified with case file Number 287/2008, against the decision entered by the Third District Judge sitting in the same city in which: i) the amparo suit is dismissed; and ii) relief and protection of federal justice against the acts of the Assistant Prosecutor for Process Control in the Attorney General's Office for the State of Sonora is denied.
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Neil MacRae
Investor Relations Manager
Farallon Resources
(604)638-2160
neilmacrae@farallonresources.com
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