Days turn into a nightmare when something utterly bad happens. The story of Portland Cement Zambia is somewhat like an old tale where a thriving kingdom loses its King and is then ruled by a group of bandits. After the Finsbury Investments was forcefully removed from the management, the factory has been left at the mercy of the Ventriglia family. The result of this change has made PCZ into a furniture which is being eaten by termites. All the cash has been safely transferred to offshore banking units and a majority of the factory’s assets has been cunningly transferred to dummy companies, which is actually owned by the Ventriglias themselves.

It was reported that Portland Cement Zambia had stopped its operations in December 2015 and since then, the factory has not been involved in any productive activity. About 43 trucks of the factory now belong to Miloto Transport. Moreover, the properties of the factory have also been given to Astrea Investments Ltd., another bogus company owned by the two pillars of the Ventriglia family, Manuela Sebastiani Ventriglia and Antoni Ventriglia. Under such circumstance, the questions that arises is whether the Italian Mafias as trying to wind up the factory and make an exit from Zambia?

Stealing Portland Cement Zambia won’t be easy

However, one thing that the Ventriglia family has failed to consider is that they are the minority shareholders of the factory and they do not possess the power to take key decisions of the factory. Without taking a prior approval of Finsbury Investment and the High Court, Portland Cement Zambia cannot be shut down and no other power in the world can suppress the fact that the Italian Mafias have broken the Zambian law on various circumstances. But, this time around it is for sure that the conspirators will pay for their ignorance and defamation campaign.