In December 2024, Nazir Bhaduralli NurMohammad Jinnah as the director of legal affairs for the embattled English Point Marina wrote an exclusive letter raising concerns and alleging cases of financial malpractices, financial crimes, tax evasion, money laundering that KCB Bank has been engaging in among many more.
“I write to you once again regarding the ongoing mismanagement and abuse of receivership powers under your liability at Pearl Beach Hotels Limited (PBHL), particularly concerning the actions of your appointed receiver, Mr.Kamal Anantroy Bhatt, and his associate, Mr. Salim Sultanali Moloo. This letter follows my prior complaints and correspondences dated December 7, December 12, and December 20, 2024, as well as the formal complaint regarding the mismanagement of EnglishPoint Marina under contested receivership.
Your consistent silence and failure to address these matters adequately constitute cumulative admissions of the irregularities and grievances detailed in my earlier communications. These include gross breaches of fiduciary duty, fraudulent activities, and facilitation of criminalised financial misconduct under the receivership process
Further to these concerns, recent information revealed from KRA reports and recent engagements with general manager and accounts team at Sai Rock Hotel directly affiliated with Mr. Bhatt and Mr. Moloo reveals the following monthly remuneration allegedly paid through PBHL’s designated payroll:
•Kamal Anantroy Bhatt: KSH 3.5 million
•Salim Sultanali Moloo: KSH 4 million
•Jai Kamal Bhatt: KSH 1 million
•Dhir Kamal Bhatt: KSH 1 million
The scale and nature of these payments raise serious concerns that they may be part of a coordinated scheme designed to benefit not only the appointed receiver and his associates but potentially certain officials within KCB Bank and the Receiver General’s office. The lack of oversight and transparency in this process further compounds these suspicions, suggesting the possibility of a broader, organized syndicate operating to siphon company
These payments further indicate a pattern of self-enrichment and deliberate misuse of company resources. Such actions not only contravene the principles governing receivership under Kenyan law, including the Insolvency Act, 2015, but also exacerbate the damages suffered by PBHL and its stakeholders.
We reiterate our demand for the immediate production and disclosure of all payroll accounts associated with PBHL during the receivership period, including records of all salaries, allowances, and other disbursements to Mr. Bhatt, Mr. Moloo, and their affiliates.
Notwithstanding, the fraudulent and unlawful laundering of KSH 69 billion, as outlined in previous correspondence, remains unresolved. The continued failure to address this matter, coupled with the tacit admissions in your silence, will form part of the accumulated damages to be reclaimed. These damages are compounded by the receivership’s mismanagement, financial improprieties, and the significant harm inflicted upon PBHL’s operations and reputation.
We request that you treat this matter with the utmost urgency and provide a comprehensive response within seven (7) days of this letter. Kindly take note of our letter dated 20 December and that we shall further adjust our account for all damages caused by KCB Bank and its appointed receiver, as well as any liabilities arising from the facilitation of fraud, tax evasion, and other financial crimes.
This letter is attached to a separate official complaint to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Kenya (ICAK), the Receiver General of Kenya, and the directors and shareholders of KCB Bank, who are urged to take immediate action in light of the grave implications of this situation based on organised criminal financial criminality and self-inculpating circumstances leading to a web of illicit activities, exposing patterns of deliberate fraud, money laundering, and abuse of legal frameworks for personal enrichment.
I am personally committed to seeking justice and accountability in accordance with the applicable laws of Kenya.”
Despite the truth in these sentiments and findings, Jinnah is a wolf in sheep’s skin.
Real Nazir Jinnah- the fake lawyer.
Until October 2022, Nazir Bhaduralli NurMohammad Jinnah was hiding in plain sight masquerading as a high end lawyer. It was the English Point Marina scandal in 2022 that blew his cover and brought him to the public spotlight.
KCB Group had seized the Mombasa’s luxury property English Point Marina and placed Pearl Beach Hotels, the real estate firm that owns it, under statutory management over a Sh5.2 billion debt. Pearl Beach Hotels had been struggling to meet its obligations to the bank over the years forcing KCB to place it under administration in June 2022.
Mr. Nazir is the Director of Pearl Beach Hotels.
Kenya’s Swindler ‘Lawyer’
It came to surface that he was minting millions from unsuspecting Kenyans and investors posing as distinguished lawyer with reputable law firms, in fact, he acted as the legal director in the KCB case which blew his cover.
For at least a decade, Nazir made millions in legal fees. Armed with a professional profile that would cow most lawyers across the globe, he managed to net clients who believed that he is one of the best advocates in Kenya. From work stints with top law firms including Khaminwa & Khaminwa Advocates and MMC-Asafo, Conrad Law & Consultancy in Nairobi to Piper May Solicitors in the UK and Mussolini & Dessel in the US, Jinnah’s claimed experience made him appear a cut above the rest.
Not even the most senior advocates at the law firm Conrad Law & Consultancy, where Jinnah worked, could match his profile. He was in ozone layer and hot as corona.
In the same year, Mr. Nazir was subjected to impersonation investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) who did not only find that he was practicing without certification but that he had minted millions from many.
He was charged eventually for posing as an associate of a reputable law firm in Kenya in a divorce case that had required him to travel to London as a lead counsel.
Nazir was charged that between the year 2013 and 2017 in Nairobi with intent to defraud Herbas Singh Birdi falsely presented himself to be an advocate of the High Court of Kenya as an associate of Khaminwa and Khaminwa advocates.
Nazir’s sentencing
He was sentenced to serve 18 months for presenting himself as an advocate .
The businessman was given an alternative of paying a fine each of Sh250,000.
Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Dolphina Alego found him guilty of presenting himself as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
He was also found guilty of making a document without authority and uttering false document.
“Conclusively, this court finds that the prosecution has proved their case in all the charges beyond reasonable doubt and this court finds that accused person is guilty herein and court convict accordingly,” ruled the court.
The charge sheet stated that with intent to defraud and without lawful authority, he made a letter for sale of property LR. No. (4/171-Nyari-Nairobi addressed to Singh purporting it to be genuine letter written and issued by Senior Counsel Khaminwa law firm.
During the hearing Law Society of Kenya categorically confirmed to the court Nazir was not an advocate or it member.
Sonny Birdi who was the first witness in the case told the court that he met Nazir in 2013 who was known to his father and was a consultant with Khaminwa advocates. That he was going through his divorce in the United Kingdom.
He needed help and that the accused now convict would be the lead counsel in Kenya. He testified that he had a UK solicitor.
He wrote a letter of appointment to the UK solicitor as lead counsel for the case. The case was in the UK and he paid for him to travel to UK.
Accused traveled to the UK twice.
Court heard that Nazir traveled to Canada for over six months and that his father went to khaminwa advocates to follow up on his land case and that is when he learnt Nazir has never been their employee, agent or partner.
In his defense, he denied receiving Sh5,540,000 from Agwawal Khan and Company and that he has no idea where the money went to.
Retired engineer Sunny Birdi in his testimony told the court the last payment of the sale of his land assets of Farhana Properties limited in Mombasa was paid to Nazir.
The convict also denied presenting himself as an advocate at Khaminwa law firm.
PR Stunts After Being Exposed.
As soon as he had been exposed and became a subject of controversy, Nazir went back to the drawing board and came up with a campaign strategy to counter his negative press image. He retained services of PR firm to cleanse his dirty image.
In nearly similar strategy, Nazir plotted PR articles in major publications in Kenya and in which he kept on switching his roles in his op-eds from being an investor, climate change activist, lifestyle, road safety expert, to reverting to negative stereotype and being a problem facing Pinewood resort in internal problems from within the Kanji family beginning with English Point Marina up to the recent attack at the hotel.
It’s ridiculous that Mr. Nazir has been trying so hard to counter the negative stories of him being a fake lawyer by posing as a man of questionable characters, if this was a movie, the Netflix’s own ‘Twitter Swindler’ would come close to describing it.
This is just but a sample of many faces that Nazir has put up in planted articles across the mainstream media and yet again trying to paint himself as a man cut above the rest. This is likely aimed at building his portfolio of whatever he’s looking at.
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