The news of the moment is that the Finance Bank Chairman, Dr. Rajan Mahtani has been arrested by the police in context to an offense which was previously declared to be ‘permanently closed’ by the Office of the Attorney General in 2012.

Internal sources suggest that the key figure behind this arrest, Kaizer Zulu, Assistant of Presidential Political Affairs has been heavily funded by the Ventriglia family. The motive behind this arrest was to stop Dr. Rajan Mahtani from taking legal actions against the violent takeover of the Zambezi Portland Cement Factory by the Ventriglia family in April 2015.

With high dignity for the Finance Bank Zambia, Dr. Mahtani has resigned from the post of the Chairman and has handed over his responsibilities to William Boli Nyirenda. At the time of arrest, witnesses suggested that Dr. Mahtani looked calm and followed the orders of the officials with grace.

The case is similar to an incident where Dr. Mahtani was previously arrested in 2012 under the administration of Rupiah Banda. At that time, the Ventriglias played the same dirty game and Dr. Mahtani was later released for a bail of K 25, 000.

The only thing that the people of Zambia can now do is to wait for the release of Dr. Mahtani and hope that the corruption of the Ventriglia family is finally put to an end.