During February 2006, the Company announced a dividend of $0.02 per share of common stock for stockholders of record and qualified warrant holders as of February 24, 2006. The dividend resulted in an accrued liability of $8,114,378 as of February 28, 2006. The Company paid such amount in March 2006. In March 2006, the Company announced a dividend of $0.04 per share of common stock for stockholders of record and qualified warrant holders as of March 31, 2006. The dividend of approximately $16,584,000 is expected to be paid in April 2006.
Effective January 11, 2006, the Company entered into a warrant redemption agreement with a warrant holder, whereby at the Company`s option, the Company agreed to redeem certain warrants representing the right to acquire an aggregate of up to 10,000,000 shares of the Company`s common stock, through April 2006. The warrants may be redeemed in quantities not to exceed 2,000,000 warrants in any one calendar month, at a price equal to the product of (a) the volume weighted average of the daily volume weighted average prices of the Company`s common stock for all trading days in the applicable calendar month, minus the exercise price of the warrant, multiplied by (b) the number of shares being redeemed from that warrant. On February 3, 2006, the Company agreed to redeem 2,000,000 warrants for $252,420 and has recorded a liability for that amount at February 28, 2006. Payment for the redemption occurred in March 2006.