By Linda Kwanjana
Kauser Salim Jussab, wanted in Malawi for being found in possession of a motor vehicle believed to have been stolen, has her days numbered as South African Police Services (SAPS) were given a tip of her presence in Durban.
Police sources in Malawi have disclosed local authorities, handling her case here in Malawi, communicated to their counterparts in South African, and shared information with them that Kauser Jussab was a wanted person in Malawi but was in that country.
Police in Malawi have been investigating Kauser Jussab over the car, a Mercedez Benz registration number HENN4, suspected to be hot.
A police hunt for Kauser Jussab at Fasa Factory in Mapanga, Blantyre, a few months ago, yielded nothing. Fasa Factory is owned by her family.
Kauser’s son, Mohammed Shabir Salim Jussab is also wanted in Malawi over a charge in which he is accused of obtaining K26m car, a BMW registration number SK 1, by false pretence
A magistrate court in Blantyre issued a second warrant of arrest against Shabir Salim Jussab relating to the car. The offence is contrary to section 319 (1) of Penal Code.
Shabir is on Interpol Red Alert, with a warrant of arrest hanging on his head over cyber harassment crime and is reportedly in Saudi Arabia.
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.
