Dr. Rajan Mahtani

After several decades of passionate philanthropy work, Dr. Mahtani’s contributions were finally recognized. He was recently felicitated with one of the maximum prestigious and awesome Forbes awards across Africa. It is the Forbes ‘Best of Africa’ award and is given to the main leaders within the discipline of business and philanthropy. Forbes recognized the contributions made by using Dr. Rajan Mahtani over the last four many years and conferred him with the Forbes ‘Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year’ award 2021. Dr. Mahtani accepted the award and thanked Almighty God for his strength in tough instances.  The Forbes ‘Best of Africa’ awards were held in collaboration with the Forbes-FIN philanthropy and leadership roundtable conference. It is one of the most predicted and outstanding commercial enterprise activities in Africa. The roundtable convention is commonly held in New York, United States. However, this year’s convention changed into held definitely because of the ongoing p...

Dr. Rajan Mahtani was recently awarded with Forbes ‘Outstanding Entrepreneur of the year’ award 2021. This award was presented to Dr. Rajan Mahtani for his business as well as philanthropic commitments over the years, improving the overall economic and social standards in Zambia.  One of the basic philanthropic commitments from Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani has been establishing the Prsion Fellowship Zambia. The program is associated to the PFI (Prsion Fellowship International) and Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani is the current Chairman of the program. The point of this program is giving caring freedoms to the detainees, ex-prisoners just as their families. The program further backers reasonable and straightforward basic equity method and the program depends on the establishment that further developing the general public beginnings with change and revisions of conduct and conditions. Under this PFZ program, a few horticultural undertakings were supported that upheld detainees to empower ind...

Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani was recently conferred with the prestigious ‘ Best of Africa ’ awards by Forbes. The awards came during the most anticipated business event of Africa, Forbes-FIN Philanthropy and Leadership roundtable conference which was held on 6th August 2021. The Forbes-FIN roundtable conference is a much awaited and anticipated business event which is being held in Africa annually. The event invited celebrated personalities including businessmen from international communities, politicials and political leaders, opinion leaders, spiritual leaders, international investors and media partners. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani was one of the esteemed speakers during the event and spoke about the critical significance of leadership for the development of the African nation.  A major attraction of the event established by Forbes and FIN (Foreign Investment Network) was the Forbes ‘Best of Africa’ awards. These awards are presented to leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, businesses a...

Portland Cement Zambia is a cement-manufacturing factory that remained under dispute for a long-time. This dispute was associated with  majority shareholding and legal ownership over the factory. The first claim registered was by Dr. Rajan Mahtani himself, at the Lusaka High Court . Dr. Rajan Mahtani claimed that the majority ownership of the factory was with Finsbury Investments, a company owned by Dr. Rajan Mahtani. Despite this, the Ventriglia family took over the factory in an unethical manner. However, the Lusaka High Court dragged the case for more than a decade and gave its final decision on the case only during May, 2018. Even this decision was controversial as the Ventriglia family was announced as majority shareholder without any legal ownership over the factory. Then came the higher Court of Appeal where a case was launched again by Dr. Rajan Mahtani . The case was taken over by justice Mwinde and on 31st January 2019, final decision was made. In this decision, the pre...

The Supreme Court Zambia recently put an end to the case of Portland Cement Zambia. This claim was brought up to Supreme Court Zambia by the Ventriglia family with claims that the decision from the higher Court of Appeal was wrong. On 31st January 2019, justice Mwinde on behalf of the higher Court of Appeal reversed the previous decision from the Lusaka High Court and announced that Dr. Rajan Mahtani is the ultimate owner of the Portland Cement Zambia . Now the Ventriglia family challenged this decision at the Supreme Court. At the same time, the Ventriglia family also claimed that the actual amount against majority shares will be K580 million and not K580,000 as finalised by the higher Court of Appeal. To evaluate the validity of this claim, a bench of three Supreme Court judges was established. These included judge Royda Kaoma, Judge Michael Musonda and Judge Mumba Malila. Together, the judges shed light to various attributes associated with the case in a transparent manner. One of ...

The history of Portland Cement Zambia is controversial and at the same time, a painful event. The Cement manufacturing factory, over the course of a decade, have suffered significant as a result of increasing corruption and lack of legal transparency. With over thirty years of business experience, Dr. Rajan Mahtani is handily recognized as perhaps the best finance managers in Zambia. He is additionally regarded for his moral and straightforward strategic approaches and magnanimous commitments towards the improvement of Zambian culture and economy. Simultaneously, Dr. Rajan Mahtani had since quite a while ago endured because of untrustworthy and circumspect business substances just as debasement filled overall set of laws.  The main example was Lusaka High Court choice which was amazingly disputable. In spite of having all confirmations and tributes, judge Nkonde reported ruling against Dr. Rajan Mahtani and gave the Ventriglias just greater part shareholding of the industrial faci...

Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani is one of the most notable and successful businessman in Zambia . He is known not only for his business acumen and business practices, but also for his charitable and philanthropic activities. Over the course of three decades, Dr. Mahtani has extended his support to several fields and areas. One of these areas has been the education field. Dr. Rajan Mahtani and late Steven Malama were close aides. Late Steven Malama was a noted lawyer and philanthropist known for several achievements in his field. One of his most important achievements have been the merger of the Barrister’s Bar and the Legislator’s bar into a single bar. This merger has helped numerous law candidates and enthusiasts to achieve bar affiliations without much difficulties. To honour these numerous contributions, Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani established the Steven Malama award .  The Steven Malama award was established in the year 2012 and the first award was given in the year 2013. After the ...

Zambia is a developing nation and for a long time, it has been facing issues of corruption and loss of political power as well as governing abilities. One of the major issues within the business and corporate section of Zambia has been intentional meddling of powerful people and organizations in business operations for their own personal profits. Political intruding is a typical degenerate practice in a country like Zambia. Notwithstanding the presence of legitimate and legal executive bodies, the nation faces huge political and lawful difficulties because of absence of straightforwardness. This makes tasks even more hard for businessmen like Dr. Rajan Mahtani who are known for their moral and fair strategic approaches. Finance managers like Dr. Mahtani are inclined to make adversaries because of their severe no-debasement arrangements over their organizations. Probably the greatest illustration of dishonest practice and debasement can be the situation of Portland Cement Zambia at th...

Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani is one of the most transparent and respected businessman in Zambia. His companies follow his path of transparency and ethical business practices. At the same time, he is known for raising his voice against unethical business practices. A prime example was the case of Portland Cement Zambia, a cement-manufacturing factory for which Dr. Rajan Mahtani fought for more than a decade. After the factory was unethically taken over by the Ventriglias, a case was registered at the Lusaka High Court. Despite all evidences and testimonials submitted by Dr. Rajan Mahtani, justice Nkonde from the Lusaka High Court gave a controversial judgement declaring Ventriglias as the only shareholders of the Portland Cement Zambia.  In the second phase, Dr. Rajan Mahtani approached the higher Court of Appeal. The proceedings were transparent here and the judge declared D. Rajan Mahtani as the actual owner and majority shareholder of the factory with 58 percent shares. The judgeme...

Finsbury Investments is one of the premier financial institutions in Zambia . The company was established by Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, a noted businessman and philanthropist. All companies and ventures from Dr. Rajan Mahtani follow his principles which are honesty, passion, dedication for the Zambian people, transparency and ethical business practices. At the same time, Dr. Rajan Mahtani is known to very extremely strict regarding unethical practices and will seek justice for every wrongdoing against him or his companies. A similar scenario has occurred wherein Finsbury Investments registered a complaint at the Lusaka High Court against the ESTD bank for fraud and conspiracy charges. According to the announcement documented by Finsbury Investments in their compliant, The EASTD bank permitted the organization Ody or Ody's Limited to change the share capital related with the hotel Radisson Inn wherein Finsbury Investments was a majority shareholder. Simultaneously, new issues of ...

Dr. Rajan Mahtani is the owner of Mahtani Group of Companies , Finsbury Investments and several other companies in Zambia. He is also the Chairman of the Finance Bank Zambia and with the collaboration of the latter, he instituted the Steven Malama award which was recently given for the year 2018-19 to Emmanuel Bwalya Kaluba.  The Steven Malama grant has for all intents and purposes changed the face of legal education system in Zambia. Aside from bringing country-wide acknowledgment and enthusiasm on the field of law, this award has likewise improved the worth of the ZIALE institute. Presently, students are discovered to be more dedicated improve their studies for this award. While there have been various interior awards by organizations, colleges and schools, the acknowledgment of Steven Malama grant is particular, somewhat because of the accomplishments by late Steven Malama. In that capacity, the Steven Malama grant is considered as one of the top law education awards in Zambia ...

The Steven Malama award was organized by Dr. Rajan Mahtani in the year 2012 for honouring and celebrating the commitments from the late Steven Malama, a celebrated legal professional, bar illuminator and Supreme Court of Zambia lawyer. Steven Malama, as depicted by Dr. Rajan Mahtani , was a dedicated legal professional who worked vigorously towards the improvement of the law training and legal structure in Zambia. His commitments, bids and dreams are all around reported. One of the most noteworthy commitments from late Steven Malama was convincing the Government of Zambia to combine two distinct bars, the Barrister's bar and the specialist's bar, into one single bar. This new bar was a critical help for lawful experts and law graduates as it provided them with the chance of getting affiliation without block and seek after their future career based on their aptitude and abilities. Steven Malama died in the year 2012.  Not many individuals know about fact that Dr. Rajan Mahtan...

Being straightforward and moral is significantly and progressively hard for individuals and organizations working in an economy brimming with debasement and untrustworthy practices. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, a prominent businessman in Zambia is confronting a similar issue. Regardless of his dash of fruitful organizations spreading over a time of three decades, Dr. Mahtani keeps on confronting a few difficulties when taking his organizations to additionally levels. For example, development of private organizations turns out to be amazingly troublesome when degenerate lawmakers and government authorities resort to pay-offs and favour those contribution unscrupulous favours. Being one of the most legit and clear businesspeople in Zambia, Dr. Rajan Mahtani has confronted various comparative difficulties and subsequently, couldn't build up his organizations in numerous cases. Along these lines, Dr. Rajan Mahtani confronted difficulties during his battle for the lawful respons...

For Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, business acumen comes naturally. He is the owner of some of the most successful companies in Zambia. Despite these successes, Dr. Rajan Mahtani faced one of the biggest challenges in his entrepreneurial and business career in the Portland Cement Zambia case. The factory was under leadership of Dr. Mahtani for a long time and flourished into one of the largest producers of Portland cement across the nation. However, things took a dramatic turn when the factory was unethically taken over from him. To regain his leadership of the factory, Dr. Rajan Mahtani pursued the Lusaka High Court for quick justice. A case was registered and all evidences were submitted before the court. However, the nation of Zambia is notorious for its unethical practices, corruption and inability of the government bodies to provide justice. The Lusaka High Court, despite stretching the case for more than a decade, was unable to provide judgement in this case. In the year 2017, ju...

A businessman’s path is filled with roadblocks and challenges. When this businessman in following transparent and ethical business practices, this path becomes all the more difficult. This is true in case of Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, one of the more respected and celebrated businessman, philanthropist and charity worker in Zambia. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani’s struggle started when his factory, Portland Cement Zambia limited, was unethically taken over from him. A case was registered at the Lusaka High Court and for ten long years, Dr. Rajan Mahtani dragged himself with case proceedings, hoping that the court will finally provide him with justice. While the day surely came when final verdict was given on the case, it was not expected by Dr. Rajan Mahtani or the media. Justice Nkonde, on behalf of the Lusaka High Court, announced Ventriglia family as the only shareholders of the Portland Cement.  To counter this decision, higher Court of Appeal was approached by Dr. ...

When Dr. Rajan Mahtani assumed control over the responsibility for Portland Cement Zambia restricted route in 2005, he didn't understand the various battles and difficulties he will look for the industrial facility. After assuming legal control over the manufacturing plant, Dr. Rajan Mahtani had the option to change the processing plant in a matter of years. With his transformational administration and vital administration, the organization arrived at tremendous potential. It likewise came to be known as perhaps the best business around, pulling in capable specialists and workers from faraway places. In spite of this snappy achievement, Dr. Rajan Mahtani met with huge difficulties when the manufacturing plant was deceptively taken over. Accordingly, Dr. Rajan Mahtani had to move toward the Lusaka High Court wherein he asserted that the production line was taken over from him forcibly. To demonstrate his case, many evidences and testimonials were shared under the watchful...

On 31 st January 2019, the judge from the Court of Appeal gave the final statement for the Portland Cement Zambia factory. In was confirmed by the higher Court of Appeal that the appellant, which is in this case in Finsbury Investments, paid an amount of USD 250,000 on July 2005 to the Zambezi Portland Cement. This amount was paid for covering the value associated with Zambezi Portland Cement shares. The report also confirmed that this amount was equivalent to 1 Billion Kwacha and was paid for buying 58 percent shares of the same factory. This shareholding pattern was further confirmed in the original Shareholders’ Agreement which was created in the year 2007. The Court of Appeal judge stated that on the page-663 of the contract, it was clearly mentioned that all amount for the 58 percent shares was already paid by the Finsbury Investments, a company owned by Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani. This also confirmed that the other party owned only 42 percent shares of the factory...

Just like any developing state within the African subcontinent, Zambia has additionally its share of numerous ups and down. While the nation has shown improvement from several fronts, it's also facing numerous problems especially in the area of corruption and unethical practices. Even the government establishments inclusive of courts and legal structures are unable to break out this mess. The instance of Dr. Rajan Mahtani and the case of Portland Cement Zambia is a top instance. Dr. Rajan Mahtani is a respected businessman which numerous a success ventures in Zambia and outside. His companies like Finsbury Investments and Mahtani Group of Companies have received sizable achievement and are known for their ethical and transparent business practices. In a similar manner, Dr. Rajan Mahtani constructed the Portland Cement Zambia , a cement-production factory. The case of Portland Cement was first registered at the Lusaka High Court. However, the final statement from the c...

Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani is finally happy and satisfied with the results of the Portland Cement Zambia case, coming from the higher Court of Appeal. Despite registering the case more than a decade ago, Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani was not given due justice from the Lusaka High Court. The judge at Lusaka HC, justice Nkonde, gave a very controversial decision when he announced Ventriglias as only shareholders of Portland Cement. This statement was extremely controversial considering the fact that Dr. Rajan Mahtani had shared almost all evidences and testimonials required to prove that he is the only legal owner of the factory. Not withstanding this injustice, Dr. Rajan Mahtani correctly approached the higher Court of Appeal to re-open the case.  The judge on behalf of the Court of Appeal was justice Mwinde, a noted judge. After looking into evidences and testimonials, justice Mwinde finalised the case decision on 31st January 2019. As per this decision, Dr. Mahtani who own...

Patience, trust and perseverance have been the major defining traits of Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani during his long struggle for the Portland Cement Zambia ownership. Be it Lusaka High Court or the higher Court of Appeal, Dr. Mahtani has always trusted in the Zambian judicial system and eventhough it tools more than a decade, justice was given at last. The Court of Appeal on 31 st January 2019 announced that Dr. Mahtani was actual owner of the Portland Cement factory. By giving this decision, justice from the higher Court of Appeal also effectively reversed the previous decision from the lower court, Lusaka High Court. After more than a decade of case proceedings, justice Nkonde from the Lusaka High Court had earlier given a very misleading judgement by announcing Ventriglias as only shareholders of Portland Cement . This decision was then countered at the higher Court of Appeal. On 31 st January 2019, final decision came from the Court of Appeal. By means of this decisi...