The claim made in this action is for damages for fraudulent misrepresentations made in the 1980 accounts inducing ABCI to enter into a contract to purchase shares in BFt; thereby, as they allege, being induced to pay 2,500,000 Tunisian Dinars which sum was transferred to BFI' on July 29, 1482. It is further alleged that when the shares were transferred to A$CI they were worthless