Bashir Mohamed Wealth: Slain businessman Bashir Mohamed was handling a multi-billion project. This is the latest revelation as investigations into the murder of the Somali-American businessman gains pace. According to a report that appeared in the Standard newspaper on Wednesday, Mohamed was building a Sh. 1.2 billion prison facility in Somalia.
He was undertaking the project under his firm, Infinity Developers Limited. This has been revealed as his family and business seeks to explain the millions that he had been wiring to and from Somalia.
“Leonard Makhoha, an operation manager at Infinity Developers Limited, said the company was in the process of servicing a Sh. 1.8b construction tender involving the construction of a prison facility in Somalia hence the transactions between his boss and other officials in Somalia,” the report said.
Makhoha further admitted that Bashir was indeed undertaking multi-millions worth of government contracts. He could not however link the projects to the death of the boss.
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“Makhoha was also among the last people to have met and spoken to Bashir. He said Bashir did not show any signs of stress or share with him any details of threats to his life. He said the company would continue working on a Sh. 729m construction tender that was awarded to their company before the mysterious disappearance and murder of his boss. Makokha said the firm was already on the ground undertaking the construction of low-income houses in Mukuru slums,” the report said.