Arrest of Abubooker owner of Riverside Hotel in ‘landgate’ opens Pandora’s Box

The arrest of Malawian of Asian origin Ahmed Abubooker Istiaq of Riverside Hotel in Salima in relation to landgate scandal where a syndicate has been busted for illegal acquiring of land has opened a Pandora’s box.

Ahmed AboBaker arrested

Abubooker Istiaq was arrested together with  three senior officers from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development on allegations that they were forging signatures and produce lease documents.

Others arrested are Flemings Chifombo, Diverson Mlozi and Rose Ajasi .

Now the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) wants to move in on charges bordering money laundering, theft and conspiracy to defeat the course of justice.

ACB are digging deeper on information that he was using Rizwan Aboobaker in Liecester, United Kingdom as a channel of money laundering.

The law enforcers have stumbled on information relating to a company known Sunrise Investments in Licester UK whose owner was Makbool Abdul Gaffar Latif.

They are also investigating Excomp Limited in relation to financial crimes.

AbooBaker’s company has a wealth of £1.2 million from Malawi but with undeclared tax.

Recently, Police arrested Mustag Mahomed, Chifuniro Simumbe and lawyer Umahu Mataka on the same syndicate while Alex Mawaya was still on the run.

The syndicate has been discovered after President Peter Mutharika had directed the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to attend to a lot of complaints on double land allocations and issuing of illegal certificates and deeds, according to Principal Secretary in the ministry of land Joseph Mwandidya.

Also on the radar of the law enforcing agencies are two Asian businessmen Mustak Chothia and Suleman Ismail on allegations of corruption and  “severe tax evasion”, Nyasa Times understands.

Investigators t could not be drawn into specifics   which are operational in nature for fear of jeopardising the investigations.

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33 replies on “Arrest of Abubooker owner of Riverside Hotel in ‘landgate’ opens Pandora’s Box”

  1. Our Nabie (SAW) said
    O the group who has believed by tongue but not by heart , do not slander about a muslim and do not spy their secret affairs, the one who is curious for the secret affairs of he’s religious brothers ,God shall reveal he’s own secret affairs and scandalizes him in he’s own home.

  2. #3 recreation and amusement-
    There are allot of people who engage in mentioning weak points amd faults of the others only for recreation and amusement or warming circles and meeting because no other sin is sweeter than slander of people..

  3. #2 envy- as the envious person always wished for the end if blessings for the envied one, when he cannot achieve he’s purpose for compensating it, he tries to damage the envied persons reputation and credit through slander and relieves the fire of he’s envy in this way..

  4. The most important motives for slander
    1-malice and revenge .as there is no easier and simpler way than slander and damaging a persons reputation and character as a means of extinguishing flames of spite and revenge, blazing in the heart

  5. Suleman karba,Mustak Chothia be prepared of wot to answer all the dealings you lot have done is being scrutinized and then warrant will
    Be issued against both of you

    Suleman your wife’s demands
    Are to high that’s why you had to do all this

  6. Mustak and suleman should be banned from
    Tikwere house and ministry of lands

    Because they just pick any plot file they want
    And change everything according to how they want

    They even have to go rehab coz of highly
    Drug addict

  7. Mustak Chothia M1 electronics suleman gazeebo are the ones who to be prosecuted,they have taken land without paying and prepared the titles then sold in the
    Secondary market

    They look like they to trust worthy
    BUT THEY THIEVES

    IN AREA 9 at Mustak Chothias house
    There is weed grown in the garden

    Mustak Chothia,suleman gazeebo,Istiaq dowo
    Sajid dt (raja) zaeem akbanie there are always
    At mustaks house at 530pm to 7pm smocking
    Fresh pakki

  8. There were 3 lands in 43 which were belonging to a deceased
    Chifomboti mlozi mbendezi all of them have played a game ate a lot of monies
    And sold to deepak sealand

    Mustak Chothia South African
    Suleman khadba british citizen
    Karamat choudry pakistani

    All are involved

  9. Selamani gave Mustak a land area 18 going towards stadium how was that done how much monies you gave selamani and mbendezi

    Abendezi aku manga niyumba
    Drama zarurukira kuti

  10. Mustak and Suleman took a plot from the church behind city mall
    We would like to know the actual deal and
    Corruption u gave
    Secondly the plot sold to associated supplies
    Inform of the church how did u get this ?
    Lastly I wanna know the flats you sold in area 3 next to Dr Antonio
    How was the transaction done

  11. Akbanies bought 2 houses in area 3 for usd125,000 each and 2 plots behind golf club usd100,000 each from Suleman khadba 999 944464 /Mustak Chothia 0999 700 900

    Akbanies contact num 0999 921 444
    Payment was done from cape town Rsa
    Plz panalise them heavily so that no1 should
    Eva commit this suck of a crime

    1. Suleman should justify the monies if the house
      His staying in
      Mustak should justify how he got the land of
      The house his staying in

  12. They should get hold of
    Register general adla and ask her

    If Mustak and Suleman were paying
    Accurate stamp duty

  13. Istiaq needs to be investigated
    Chima suta fodya ya ku nkotakota

    His a good friend to daud complex (raja)

    Amaka sootira ku niyumba wa
    Mustak Chothia

  14. Everywhere in the world they are mixed races and a multicultrual society, Communities who are in Malawi such as asians have worked hard and are here becuase of this hard work. Rather then critising, why not work hard. Yes they are bad fruits in every nation and culture but not all asians are like that. They are asians here who do alot of charity work which they don’t advertise, employ thousands of staff and get paid really well. They treat they staff well too. So before making accusations not generlise the whole Asian community. Work hard and stop moaning, you to will also be there….

  15. Eeeesh Asian my ass I hate those blood racist fucking Asian they playing with us like there fool’s in our own motherland country just because of our greedy and corrupted leader watch out this scandal but this guy will be left Scott free like nothing have happened, suck!!!

  16. Bring kamuzu laws back and see what malawi will be peacefull strick laws if you dont like live the country go back

  17. The first investigation Malawi must do is to check if indeed most Indians are truely Malawian, you will be shocked to discover most of them have acquired back door citizenships. Ambiri amwenye are not legal Malawians. Let someone from government take a bold move or I challenge ACB if it has teeth to take this challenge. Our Indian brothers are the main corrupters of our nation. Something drastic must be done or we will be lying to ourselves we are in control

  18. Th biggest culprit is our so called president Mutharika whos allowing these Asians to rape our economy left right and centre.and the sad thing os that thyre taking the money outside Malawi to invest in UK,South Africa,UAE,India,… Amalawi chilondi chimativuta.instead of giving businesses to fellow Malawians ur gvn to Asians.

  19. amupatsa citseka pakamwa pitala monga acitila ndi mlandu wa land grabber where getuluda akukhudzidwa ija. sizatha basi!!!!! FUCK

  20. Fuck them. They need to be used as examples now. In kamuzu days these curry munchies were not allowed to have foreign accounts for this reason. If all these rotten Indians kept there money in Malawi our economy would be else where today. Bit they make there illegitimate money here and siphon it to other country. A Malawi dzukani. APM make your stance bwana. Jail them permanently. They corrupt poor malawians and get them roped into rotten deals all because of poverty. Sad situation. Amangindwe basi.

  21. Our Asians of Malawi origin can and will never be arrested because they are cash cows for DPP and it’s gurus. In fact Asians’ clandestine behaviour started with Muluzi and the DPP gurus perfected the vice.

    Haven’t you observed of late how huge chunks of land/plots are being fenced off in BT and LL. Most of these are owned by amwenye and were bought with peanuts from Cities through corrupt CEOs.

    Take BT, for example. Asians, including Chinese, are buying plots in central city pushing indeginous Malawians to the city’s peripheral like Chatha, Mpemba, Lunzu etc.

    Chris my beloved Malawi.

    1. Indians and Chinese are sucking Malawi dry, with full support and facilitation by politicians. This started during the Mluzi (thief) era and sustained by other presidents since the Kamuzu era. Malawians always feel very inferior to whites, Indians, and Chinese, and this is more prominent among certain tribes, where illiteracy and corruption are higher. Unfortunately, these are the people, due to their high populations, tribalism, witchcraft, and jealousy produce presidents.

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