UNITED STATES SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION

     Litigation Release No. 15496 / September 17, 1997

     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. THE GENEVA GROUP and NICHOLAS GARCIA,
     Civil Action No. SACV97-740 AHS (C.D. Cal.)

     The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that, on September 15,
     1997, it filed an emergency lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles to halt
     an ongoing fraud by Orange County-based The Geneva Group and Nicholas
     Garcia.  On the Commission s application, the Court has ordered defendants
     Geneva and Garcia immediately to cease their fraudulent activities.  In
     addition, to protect investor funds, the Court has frozen Geneva s and
     Garcia s assets pending further litigation.  

     The Commission told the Court that the defendants have been soliciting
     investors to buy shares of ForceTek Holding, Inc. -- a company controlled
     by Garcia s associates that apparently has no business operations -- with
     materials that describe the business of Force Technologies, Inc., a
     different and unrelated Canadian company that trades in Canada under the
     symbol FRCE.  Earlier this year, Garcia and Geneva obtained 900,000 shares
     of Force Technologies and then solicited investors to buy the stock. 
     According to the marketing materials used by the defendants, the businesses
     of Force Technologies include the marketing and distribution of safety
     film, and the development of an Internet gaming site and an HIV saliva
     test.

     This summer, according to the Commission, Garcia's associates acquired
     control of a public shell corporation whose stock had been cleared for
     quotation on the NASD Bulletin Board, changed its name to ForceTek Holding,
     Inc., and changed its trading symbol to FRCE, the same symbol as that used
     by Force Technologies in Canada.  The defendants started soliciting
     investors to buy ForceTek stock, using materials very similar, and in some
     instances substantially identical, to those they had used to offer and sell
     Force Technologies stock.

     Based on these allegations, the Commission claims that the defendants
     violated the antifraud and broker-dealer registration provisions of the
     federal securities laws.  The Court has scheduled a hearing for
     September 26, 1997, to determine whether the relief granted yesterday
     should be extended.

     The Commission thanks the National Association of Securities Dealers for
     its assistance in this matter. 









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