Investor alert: Sumitomo International

2009-04-06

Sumitomo International is not authorised by Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) and is therefore not entitled to provide financial services.

Sumitomo International has a website, (www.sumitomoint.com) and using the following address: 20-1 Sakuragaoka-Cho Shibuya Infos Tower 8F, Shibuya-Ku Tokyo, Japan 150-0031.

Sumitomo International's representatives contact investors by telephone and offer to buy their holdings of shares. However, the investor must first pay a fee in advance. This is an advance fee fraud scheme.

Information suggests that Sumitomo International takes over the operation of Masahiro International. Please, see warning against Masahiro International issued 16 November 2007.