The Portland Cement Zambia factory was taken over by Finsbury Investments which is a top investment company in Zambia owned and led by Dr. Rajan Mahtani. The factory was taken over in an official and transparent manner with established of an original shareholding agreement. Soon the factory started to grow with above-average production, the Ventriglia family hatched a plan to takeover the factory despite the initial acceptance of their minority shareholding as per the original agreement. As a result of these unethical meddling, the case at the Lusaka High Court stretched for more than a decade. During the initial months of 2018, justice Nkonde who was looking into this case at the Lusaka High Court, gave a positive announcement. In his announcement, the judge confirmed that he will be closing the case proceedings. Both parties were asked to submit their evidences and testimonials in written and oral manner. Based only on these evidences submitted by both parties, the final verdict on the case will be provided. This was an extremely positive news for Dr. Rajan Mahtani and his teams as they had all required evidences and testimonials for achieving success in the case. However, despite all these evidences and a mirage of ethical decision making, the final verdict from the Lusaka High Court was eye popping as justice Nkonde announced that the Ventriglia family is the only majority shareholding of the factory.
After this bizarre decision from the Lusaka High Court, Dr. Mahtani approached higher Court of Appeal seeking justice. And this justice was received when Judge Mwinde reversed the decision from the Lusaka High Court and announced Dr. Mahtani owned Finsbury Investment as the majority shareholder and legal owner of the factory with 58 percent Portland Cement shares. While the Ventriglia family once again decided to disrupt this decision by approaching against it at the Supreme Court, it was effectively rejected by the Supreme Court due to lack of evidence.