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...stocks that get the best reception are usually high-technology concerns like Apple. ISC Systems is now quoted at $44.25, an increase of 127% since it went public in September, and Magnuson Computer is up 115% from its original price of $20. Oil and gas issues are also popular. Cheyenne Resources is up 738% since its February offering at $1 a share, and Saxon Oil has jumped to $35.75, an increase of 43%, just since Thanksgiving. Other winners are medical technology companies such as Genentech or Gamma Biologicals, which makes a serum for determining blood type. It closed last week...
...Saudi Arabia, where ISC won a $106 million contract to design and build a desalination plant, the SEC charges that the company paid Adnam Samman, then vice governor of the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corp., $3.5 million. To pick up a $50 million contract for a sugar processing complex in the Ivory Coast, ISC paid Gilchrist Olympic, son of a for mer President of Togo, more than $1 million and gave him a new Lincoln Continental, the SEC says...
...Chile, the company worked out a deal with Daniel Fuenzalida, chief economic adviser to General Gustavo Leigh, a member of the ruling junta. Fuenzalida and others formed a company called Chilco, which the SEC said was to be paid .5% of the value of any contracts that ISC secured in the country. One member of Chilco was Benjamin Rencoret, who was and is a Chilean honorary consul in Houston. Despite payments of $30,000 to Chilco, the company failed to get the contract it was seeking: construction of a $375 million liquefied natural gas plant...
...ISC subsidiary landed a contract in Algeria to build a natural gas treatment plant. The subsidiary listed a cost of $400,000 paid to Rhasid Zeghar, a former senior military officer, for consulting services, which the SEC says consisted of meeting with ISC representatives for four days. In order to win a $5.2 million contract to build a grain storage facility in Nicaragua, other subsidiaries paid $415,538 to companies owned or controlled by Dictator Anastasio Somoza and his wife...
Company officials deny that the payments were bribes and claim they were sales commissions and consulting fees. In any event, the two-year investigation by the SEC has put ISC in dire trouble. Unable to meet its payroll since April, it has piled up $24 million in losses, and trading in its once highflying stock has been halted by the American Stock Exchange...