……The Maravi Post vindicated….
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Police are keeping in custody businessman Riaz Jankhura including South African Businessman Moshing Nathwani and Javed Alam for being involved in 38 unclaimed police uniforms boxes that are stuck at Kamuzu and Chileka International airports.
Malawi Police Public Relations Officer Peter Kalaya confirmed the arrest on Saturday, March 11, 2023.
Jankhura aged 59 is Speedy Car sales boss who have been in the news for wrong reasons.
The arrest comes barely three weeks after The Maravi Post exclusively (Contributor Deus Chikalaza) carried an article on how Jankhura was involved the dubious deal.
After the article, embattled Jankhura desperately sought lawsuit against The Maravi Post’s article demanding millions of kwacha for defamation.
The paper eventually pulled out the article for peace while knowing full truth of the matter.
Jankhura have been trying to obtain contracts to supply various items to the Police Department for some time without much success.
According to the source, this time, the businessmen are said to have used a proxy business firm and individuals who are allegedly ‘connected’ to the ruling establishment to improve their chances of winning the contracts and ended up landing into trouble.
Kalaya told Malawi News in February there wa existence of this a ‘fake’ contract but could not confirm the connection to the businessmen of Indian origin, only saying “three people” had been arrested in connection to the issue, and that more people would be arrested.
“What I can say is that there are some Malawians who convinced a businesswoman to procure various items worth several billions of Malawi Kwachas allegedly to be supplied to the Malawi Police Service. The businesswoman realized that this contract was fake when she wanted to process duty free papers with the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), but by this time the items had already been brought into the country through Air Cargo.
“As I am talking, the consignment is still stuck at Kamuzu International Airport and Chileka Airport, and we have arrested three people in connection to the issue. I cannot disclose the names of the suspects as at now because we are still carrying out investigations, and we expect to arrest more people,” said Kalaya.
More to come…..
