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Reply Re: Bellador boiler room, Endovasc,Advanced Micro Devices,etc.
By Ron Logan on 11/10/2004 4:06:36 AM

E-mail: logan@logan-geotas.com

Sir:

It is always troubling when anonymous, uninformed, message board "experts" make posts such as the following:

"The question remains as to why James Dale Davidson who founded 'naanss' supposedly to 'stop naked short selling' with convicted Canadian securities fraudster Brent Pierce,and who must have dumped many unaccounted for shares when he pumped through his 'Vantage Point' etc. wasn't included in this group of insider share dumpers.Nor Belladorgroup boiler room boys out of Kuala Lumpur for that matter."

I have no connection with, or special knowledge of, the other parties that you mention, but I am well informed about Bellador Advisory Services (Labuan) Limited and its operations. You are completely wrong about your accusations of short selling and regarding your claim that Bellador operates a boiler room. Your post suggests that you are do not understand what an insider is, what a boiler room is and what constitutes commercial defamation.

1. Bellador Advisory Services (Labuan) Limited owns no shares in Endovasc, Inc.

2. Bellador Advisory Services (Labuan) Limited is not a boiler room. It is a research firm and financial advisor that screens well over 60 public companies for each one that it recommends to its high net worth clients around the globe. It has an extensive due diligence system that identifies late development stage and early revenue stage companies that are expected to become highly profitable. Bellador looks for companies that occupy a unique place in their industry, have strong intellectual property protection on exciting products, can become very successful with a modest amount of capital and that have a strong management team which has a strong plan for success.

Endovasc is one of those companies. The screening, information gathering and analysis performed by Bellador's due diligence team is followed by the preparation of a report on each opportunity that is more extensive in some respects than analyst reports that are produced by major brokerage houses. Bellador, in addition to conducting research to fully understand a funding candidate's industry, undertakes careful financial due diligence, conducts extensive interviews of all key employees, examines all important contracts to which the company has entered into and requires contract terms that allow for careful monitoring of the use of proceeds. Your complete misunderstanding of Bellador brings your own credibility into question.

3. Bellador's directors, not the company itself, have invested in some companies funded by its clients, but neither Bellador nor its directors have ever sold, shorted or otherwise engaged in hedging transactions involving a single share of any funded company. Bellador is subject to exhaustive audits by the licensing authority in Labuan, the Federal Territory of Malaysia (a growing financial center in East Malaysia). Any interested party can contact the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority (LOFSA) and will find that Bellador Advisory Services is licensed as a fund manager and advisor and has been thoroughly audited by both LOFSA and by the Malaysia Securities Commission within the past year. The audit is intended to assure that Bellador has complied fully with the strict laws of LOFSA. Bellador is in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The regulatory authorities in the Federal Territory of Labuan and in Malaysia are very aggressive in their protection of investors and not at all like the fast and loose jurisdictions that have developed reputations as havens for shady operators.

4. It is patently ridiculous to assert that Bellador would sabotage its own business by causing harm to the share price of Endovasc, Inc. or any other company that it recommends to its clients. Only if Bellador's clients experience consistently good returns will the clients have confidence in Bellador's recommendations. Bellador has an outstanding track record of recommending companies that have experienced success. Not all excellent investment opportunities bear fruit in the first year. Endovasc, for example, was viewed as a 2-3 year opportunity. Bellador has sophisticated clients and it maintains the confidence of those clients, who understand that strong companies can be shorted and that the best remedy is for the company to pursue an unwavering, determined strategy of producing good results.

Bellador has been a strong supporter of the efforts of Endovasc to fight the naked shorting. Anyone who doubts this can call Endovasc and speak with CFO Dwight Cantrell or Vice President for Business Development, Rob Johnson, about their high regard for Bellador and its directors. Mr. Cantrell and Mr. Johnson work with the attorneys for Endovasc in monitoring the naked short selling. They know who is doing it and when it is happening. They absolutely know that Bellador and its clients are a friendly ally and are not part of the problem.

Anyone who doubts the positive direction in which Endovasc is moving and the level of confidence that its investors have in the company should read the press releases linked below. Endovasc has recently reorganized as a Business Development Company and has announced the raise of $5,000,000:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041007/75356_1.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041007/75357_1.html

Your delight in attacking responsible people and companies and indiscriminately lumping them into a category with bad actors is a destructive way for someone to spend their time on the Internet. You carefully hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. I have no need to do so.

Ronald J. Logan
Logan & Geotas, PLC
Attorneys at Law
Suite 300
2198 E Camelback Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85016-4747

Office: (602) 957-9320
Internet Fax: (602) 532-7694


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