==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 15096 / September 30, 1996 S.E.C. v. Axiom Security Solutions, Inc. and Paul L. Parshall, Civil Action No. 2:96CV-0825J (U.S.D.C., D. Utah) The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the filing of a Complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, on September 27, 1996, seeking permanent injunctions against Axiom Security Solutions, Inc. and Paul L. Parshall. The Commission's Complaint also seeks to bar Parshall from acting as an officer or director of a reporting company and seeks disgorgement and civil money penalties from Parshall. The Commission's Complaint alleges violations of the antifraud provisions of Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Commission alleges that Parshall set up a new Utah corporation, Republic International Corporation ("New Republic"), to assume the identity of a defunct, but publicly traded, Utah corporation with the same name ("Old Republic"). Through his own transfer agent, TransGlobal Securities, Inc., and working from a shareholder list for Old Republic, Parshall issued common stock in New Republic in the names of the shareholders of the defunct Old Republic and then sold the newly created shell corporation to Axiom Security Solutions, Inc., a private company, as a vehicle for taking it public. In addition, Parshall had New Republic assume the identity of Old Republic for purposes of delivering information to market makers and making filings with the Commission. Parshall prepared filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and caused New Republic to file them with the Commission. These filings falsely represented that New Republic was, in fact, Old Republic. Finally, after its merger with the New Republic shell, Axiom Security Solutions, Inc. made filings on Forms 8-K and S-8 which contained material misrepresentations regarding the use of proceeds from the S-8 offering. Parshall and Axiom have consented to the entry of injunctions against them from further violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. In addition, Parshall has consented to be barred from serving of an officer or director of a company filing reports with the Commission. Finally, Parshall has consented to disgorge $150,000 and prejudgment interest thereon of $7,594 and to pay a civil penalty of $100,000.