EXHIBIT 18 The attached Shipper's Export Declarations (SEDS) relate to C-TEK's illegal exportation of a single Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX 8700 computer valued at approximately $650,000, and required a Department of Commerce individual validated license. The VAX 8700 system had been broken down into two crates and nine separate cartons, for shipment to Singapore. The serial numbers and other identifying information was removed from the computer and the boxes were falsely labeled. To avoid detection, Casperson filed false SED with freight forwarders directing the export of the commodities. One of the attached documents shows a shipment of the commodities to be an "expansion cabinet", valued at $4200 with the export license designation blank. Another document shows a DEC PC compatible computer valued at $2,000 with the license designation as "G-Dest". - The broken down components were grossly undervalued purposely valued under the $5,000 threshold for a license (items under $5,000 did not require a license). Townsend instructed Casperson to list the VAX 8700 unit as a DEC expansion cabinet because the two cabinets are roughly the same size. |