| The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) conducted 
                the inspection of Garban International, Tokyo Branch (Garban) 
                based on the provisions of the Law on Foreign Securities Firms 
                (LFSF) and found a legal violation described below.
 SESC sent the recommendation to the Financial Reconstruction 
                Commission (FRC) and the Commissioner of Financial Supervisory 
                Agency to take disciplinary action against Garban pursuant to 
                Article 29(1) of FRC Establishment Law on June 21, 2000. (Bucket Trading)Between January 1999 and December 1999, with regard to the orders 
                with acting as a broker on securities trading by many customers, 
                Garban had executed customer's orders for its own account instead 
                of acting as a broker to such transaction many times.
 (Violation of LFSF 14(1)) |