UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 15853 / August 18, 1998 The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") announced today that Judge Jack T. Camp of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia entered an Order of Preliminary Injunction and Other Relief against Clarence Wayne Cook ("Cook"), Brian E. Causey ("Causey"), Haven Quest and Cayman South International, Inc. ("Cayman"). The four defendants consented to the entry of preliminary injunctions without admitting or denying the allegations of the Commission's complaint. The complaint alleges that defendants Cook and Causey used their controlled entities Haven Quest and Cayman to orchestrate a prime bank offer and sale of investments in fraudulent international trading program using misrepresentations and omissions of fact to investors and agents. The Commission's complaint alleges that Cook and Causey individually and through Haven Quest and Cayman, effected the scheme by falsely promoting the purported trading programs as legitimate, virtually no-risk investments with projected returns of 900% in 20 weeks for the Cayman program and up to 500% over ten months for the Haven Quest program, when the programs touted were non-existent and they had no reasonable basis for such projections. Cook and Causey falsely represented that investor funds would be secured by bank certificates of deposit, and failed to disclose that Haven Quest would pay at least 20% of all investor funds directly to themselves as purported commissions pursuant to undisclosed agreements with Haven Quest. Cook and Causey also failed to disclose that $430,000 of funds raised from Haven Quest investors would be used to refund monies to Cayman program investors when the Cayman program failed due to an unsuccessful "trade." The complaint further alleges that while continuing their scheme, the defendants conducted offerings by use of the mails and other channels in interstate commerce to sell at least $3 million in securities in the Cayman and Haven Quest programs to investors throughout the country. See also: L.R. 15836 (August 8, 1998).