The source added that Muya has been arrested and is facing strong charges of having laundered and stolen staggering billions of Dollars and Kwacha. ZIN has been told exclusively that the lawyer faces the money laundering and theft charges along with some payments from Ventriglia family named Daniele and Antonio Ventriglia.
Muya who has worked widely with Ventriglias in siphoning money from Zamezi Portland Cement (ZPC) when Italian mafia entrepreneur were unlawfully in charge of running Portland Cement Zambia between 2010 and 2012. The criminal and mafia Ventriglias are minority shareholders in ZPC though the audacity and depth of their crookedness was made made manifest while they made a crooked move to out the majority shareholders in 2008.
The depth of criminality and crookedness schemed by the lawyer and the Ventriglias is evidenced largely in the audit report by Deloitte and Touche. The report highlights theft of substantial amounts of money using Muya’s company. According to the report, Laurel Mining Equipment Limited, the company of Muya, was paid about USD 18,764,521 without even delivering any kind of services or goods to ZPC.
Moreover, about K 3.8Billion (old currency) was paid by ZPC to Muya & Co for alleged legal services. Some payments were made in cash as well. Other evidences state that Muya directed the cement manufacturing firm to pay 375,000 USD to the account of AntonioVentriglia in Dubai against his invoice for legal services alleged to the ZPC.