By Linda Kwanjana

A magistrate court in Blantyre has issued yet another warrant of arrest against on the run and wanted businessman Mohamed Shabir Salim Jussab for allegedly obtaining a BMW car worth K26 million by false pretence.

The offence is contrary to section 319 (1) of Penal Code.

Shabir, on Interpol Red Alert and also with another warrant of arrest hanging on his head over cyber harassment crime and reportedly in Saudi Arabia, is this time around being accused of obtaining the BMW car by false pretence.

The car was brought to his garage at Makata in Blantyre but he never returned it to the owner.

The court, in a warrant of arrest dated 18th September 2023, has ordered police to arrest him and bring him before the court.

Police in Blantyre have also been hunting for businessman Humair Salim Mahomed Sidik Jussab, a young brother to Shabir, months after Chief Resident Magistrate Court in Blantyre issued a warrant of arrest against him over a ‘hot car’.

Humair, who is also wanted by Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), is said to have lied to the tax-collecting body that he was a student returning to Malawi from South Africa to evade duty on a VW Amarok, double cab, which he registered as BZ 1382, in his name.

The car was discovered by an Interpol search which Malawi Police Service joined, and they relocated it at a garage in Blantyre.

Humair, who is also wanted by police with a warrant of arrest also hanging on his head for a number of criminal charges, will be answering to the charges by police relating to the ‘hot car’ and also to MRA for the duty evasion.

Sources both at police in Blantyre and MRA said the cases would move upon his arrest. He is reported to be outside Malawi.

The warrant of arrest issued against Humair requires investigators from Blantyre Police Station who applied for it to hunt the suspect and bring him before the court.

“This is to authorise and require you to enter into upon and arrest the said suspect, and if arrested, to take possession of the said suspect and produce the same forthwith before this court,” reads the warrant of arrest in part.

The warrant explains the offence is suspected to have occurred on December 15 2022 when the suspect brought the car into Malawi dishonestly.

On the other hand, police are also investigating Kauser Salim Jussab, a mother to Humair and Shabir, over another car also suspected to be hot.

Police, under Anti-Motor Car Theft Department based at South West Region Police, have been hunting for Kauser in connection to information they have that her Mercedes Benz, registration number HENN4 is a stolen car.

Our sources at South West Region Police disclosed that officers went to Fasa Factory in Mapanga at one point, owned by her family, looking for her and the car, but they did not find her and the car.

We have information that South African Police Services (SAPS) have been alerted to help hunt for Kauser Salim Jussab over the stolen can, as she was, reported to be in Durban.