As it is already known, according to the decisions of the President of the ATHEX Board of Directors on April 23 & 24, 2003 respectively, the trading of the shares of the companies ELEFTHERI TILEORASI S.A., ALTEC S.A. & MICROLAND COMPUTERS S.A. was temporarily suspended. These decisions were taken, following the announcement of the Fraud & Financial Crime Corps Department in respect with the audits carried out in these companies along with the decision of the Capital Market Commission to request from the One-Member District Court of Athens the appointment of auditors for carrying out financial audits. As it was clearly specified, these decisions were taken in order to protect investors so that the necessary time is provided for disseminating accurate information to investors and for evaluating and examining calmly the facts, which resulted from the announcements of the auditing Authorities.

Based on the information gathered up to this moment, it seems that the administrative auditing procedure will be continued, whereas if the intention of the companies involved to be legally protected is taken into consideration, then the final settlement of disputes will take a long time to be resolved.

Moreover, in the meantime, the interested companies, through press releases that were published on the Press provided detailed information about the issues in question, replied to the announcement issued by the Fraud & Financial Crime Corps Department, explained the procedure that is to be followed, the actions that they are willing to undertake, while they stressed out that the companies themselves are in a position to face the consequences of the audits that are currently taking place without having their viability doubted.

In view of all the above and in considering the fact that the necessary dissemination of information to investors has been provided and that the information, which influences investors in evaluating these shares, has been clarified, the President of the ATHEX Board of Directors decided to remove the shares of the three companies from the ''under suspension status''.

In any case, in order to secure the smooth operation of the market and to provide the best possible information to investors, it was requested to the management of the companies to provide to the ATHEX on a regular basis-every fifteen days-or even in a shorter period of time, if necessary, accurate and detailed information about the course of the audits that are currently taking place, information, which the ATHEX will then disclose to the investing public.