Investor alert: Charles Fleming Co. Ltd

2005-10-10

Charles Fleming Co. Ltd is not authorised by Finansinspektionen, and is not entitled to provide financial services.

The company has a website, (charlesfleming.net), where it claims to have an address in Sanno Park Bldg, 2-11-1 Nagata-Cho, Chiyoda Ku, Tokyo 100-6172 Japan.

Charles Fleming Co. Ltd is not on the “List of licensed (registered) Financial Institutions” of the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo.

The company also claims offices in Shanghai and Seoul.

Finansinspektionen has received information that Charles Fleming Co. Ltd has approached investors in Sweden and abroad by telephone. The company offers the investors to buy American shares to a lower price than the official price on the exchange. Payment is required to a bank in Hong Kong or to a bank in the Czech Republic.

Dnr 05-2510-331