APLUS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL (UK) PLC

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above-named Company, duly convened, and held at 4-1 Shin-ogawa-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan, on Wednesday, 5th August 1998, the subjoined Special Resolution was duly passed:   “That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Roy Bailey and Martin Fishman, of Arthur Andersen, PO Box 55, 1 Surrey Street, London WC2R 2NT, be and they are hereby appointed Joint Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up, and that any act required or authorised under an enactment to be done by them may be done by either or both of them.” M. Kida, Chairman