By Chris Lang
Three weeks ago, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about three carbon credit fraud suspects who are wanted in Germany for tax evasion and money laundering. On Sunday, I received an email from “AS” at Salya Group accusing me of having “wrongfully written your blog” and requesting that the post is removed.
The German authorities are looking for three men: Ashraf Muhammad, Mobeen Iqbal, and Mohsin Usmangani Salya. The first two are from Pakistan and the third is British. “AS” is concerned about the mention of Mohsin Salya in the article on REDD-Monitor.
UPDATE – 31 January 2017: In November 2016, Mohsin Salya was sentenced to three years and three months in jail for tax evasion:
Here are three photographs of Mohsin Salya, from the German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) website:
And here’s the email that REDD-Monitor received from “AS”:
From: AS [email protected]
Date: 15 May 2016 at 08:33
Subject: Chris Lang – Mohsin Salya article -Redd-Monitor website
To: [email protected]
Dear Sirs,
I write to you in relation to the blog you have written which is highly damaging for our group. Please kindly note that we reserve our legal rights against you for defamation and there is no immediate court action incurred by the facts of your blog. It is “suspected” and no court documents or international warrants have been issued. You have wrongfully written your blog and neither do you have any legal privilege on these facts.
Please could you kindly remove this link at the with the upmost urgency as it is highly damaging our group , family and relatives. Please note I cannot comment on the other parties and I am only interested with the news and comments of Mohsin Usmangani Salya
Warm Regards
Salya Group
http://redd-monitor.org/2016/04/27/three-carbon-credit-fraud-suspects-wanted-in-germany-for-tax-evasion-and-money-laundering/
Contrary to the Salya Group’s statement that no international warrants have been issued, the BKA website has the following to say about Mohsin Salya:
SALYA is suspected of causing damage in excess of EUR 125.6 million to the detriment of the Federal Republic of Germany between September 2009 and April 2010. He has numerous contacts abroad, in particular in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and Pakistan, and he is a central figure acting in the background of this VAT missing trader fraud scheme.
SALYA is the subject of an international arrest warrant.
Who is “AS”?
The email from the Salya Group came from someone calling themselves “AS”. His full name is Aadiel Salya, a solicitor in Walton Le Dale, Preston. Here’s his LinkedIn account:
In February 2016 Aadiel Salya was one of seven men that the City of London police charged with conspiracy to defraud for his role in a £950,000 medical invoice fraud.
Three of the men have pleaded guilty. This is Lancashire reports that Aadiel Salya and Yasin Salya are due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court in June 2016 to make representation for the charges against them to be dismissed.
What is the Salya Group?
Aadiel Salya’s father is Usman Salya, the chairman of the Salya Group. Usman Salya was born in 1953 in Gujarat, India. He moved to England in the 1960s, and in the 1980s started a business making jeans for Wrangler, Lee, Levis and others.
He branched out into property development and formed Salya Homes. In 2006, Usman Salya, encouraged by his “football-mad” son, agreed to sponsor Preston North End football club.
Salya Homes was dissolved on 30 November 2012. The company was registered in 2002 as Salya Apparel Limited and changed its name to Salya Homes in 2004. When the company was dissolved it was called Rupidus Limited.
Usman Salya has been director of 17 companies. Sixteen of them are dissolved. Today, none of the companies have “Salya” in their company names. All of them previously did. Many of the companies have had several names, often changed again a few days after the word “Salya” was removed from the company name. For example, on 1 October 2010, Salya Investments Limited was renamed as Keters Limited. Six days later, the name was changed again to Ketters Limited.
Here’s a list, with the date that the word “Salya” disappeared from the company name, and the current name linked to the company’s records at Companies House:
| Previous name | Date of change | Current name |
| Salya Homes Limited | 21 Jan 2009 | Rupidus Limited |
| Salya Homes (South) Limited | 21 Jan 2009 | S H T South Limited |
| Salya Estates Limited | 12 May 2009 | E N World Limited |
| Salya Trading Limited | 23 July 2009 | N W S Trading Limited |
| Salya Asset Management Limited | 23 July 2009 | A M L B Limited |
| Salya Performance Limited | 28 July 2009 | S P N W Limited |
| Salya Finance Limited | 8 Aug 2009 | S V N Limited |
| Salya Developments Limited | 14 Aug 2009 | D L B N W Limited |
| Salya Engineering Limited | 1 Oct 2010 | PTI Management Limited |
| Salya Investments Limited | 1 Oct 2010 | Ketters Limited |
| Salya Real Estates Limited | 1 Oct 2010 | Lowstoft Limited |
| Salya & Sons Limited | 1 Oct 2010 | Matsland Limited |
| Salya Construction Limited | 1 Oct 2010 | Conts Limited |
| Salya Corporation plc | 12 Oct 2010 | Syndictus plc |
| Salya Commercial Properties Limited | 20 Oct 2010 | Grimland Limited |
| Salya Properties Limited | 20 Oct 2010 | Kingslyyn Limited |
| Salya Limited | 20 Oct 2010 | Tauntans Limited |
According to its website, the Salya Group is currently involved in construction, real estate, investments, commodities trading, and recruitment. In 2008, the Salya Group was planning to invest more than US$1 billion in Dubai. Not all of these investments worked out as planned.
Here’s a screenshot of the Salya Group’s website:
Clicking on the “Commodities Training” image takes us to a company calling itself “Angel Commodities”, or perhaps Angle Commodities – there seems to be some confusion.
The website was registered anonymously in November 2015.
On its website Angel Commodities provides no information about the company, but it does claim that, “Since its inception in 2010 Angel Commodities has evolved and grown to become one of the leaders in its field.” The “About” page of the website is particularly unhelpful:
Each new business oppurtunities offers valuable experiences and enables us to provide the service that we are use to , It also provides mutual growth in trading for both Angel Commodities with our valued clients and International Associations.
Re: Mohsin Salya
Very well written piece of investigative article.
One piece of information you did miss is the act that he has been disqualified acting as a director from 2004 to 2018 in the United Kingdom (just google Mohsin Salya Disqualified as a Director)
Well Done Chris
@NoseUp – Thanks for this. Mohsin and Yasin Salya were directors of a company called Continental Claims Consultants Limited. Here’s a brief report about Mohsin Salya being disqualified as a director:
Yasin Salya has also been disqualified as a director. Here’s an announcement about his disqualification:
Hi what’s your point though do u work for German authorsties. let the law makers do there job and instead of being keyboard gangster i suggest you should not give up on your day job it’s people like you who have nothing better to do.i guess you should be writing blogs on MPs bankers etc.
Please get your self a good decent job.
innocent until proven guilty. Let the law makers do there job and I seriously suggest to look for a job ASAP and don’t be a keyboard hamster
@Rizwan patel – Obviously, I don’t work for “German authorsties”. Since you mention bankers, here’s a post about a couple of bankers, who have set up a company that funds REDD projects, based in the tax haven of Luxembourg:
The European Investment Bank and USAID are supporting REDD through Althelia Climate Fund: A financial intermediary based in the tax haven of Luxembourg
Rizwan Patel looks to be a lover/friend/fan of Mr Mohsin Salya or maybe just a beneficiary of the ‘suspected’ fraudster.
#welldonechrislangforexposing
I’m really inspired.????????
Hi Guys,Mr.Let me introduce Mr. Rizwan Patel To you. He belongs to Salya clan. He took responsibility of Salya LLC Dubai in 2007 & his designation was Office Manager. I can provide his visa copy & labour card copy.
Rizwan Patel is also part of Merlins Wood LTD who stole Money from innocent people in Pakistan and United Kingdon.
INDUS DELTA REDD LIMITED is another company set up this year by Nadeem Raza Khan who seems to be linked to Surriekha Khan and Rizwan Patel
@Sharif, @Kay, and @Kay Batley – Thanks for these comments. A few questions, if you don’t mind:
@Sharif – What does “belongs to Salya clan” mean? And what does “took responsibility of Salya LLC Dubai” mean?
@Kay – What does “part of Merlins Wood” mean? And what evidence do have that Merlins Wood stole money?
Nadeem Khan is director of Indus Delta REDD Limited, together with Rizwan Patel.
Nadeem Kahn is also a director of Merlins Wood.
Rizwan Patel has been director of 42 companies.
Fascinating read. If solicitors believe they can act with impunity then they are wrong. They will be punished and held accountable. They make it harder for legimate and professional UK solcitors. Thanks for the article.
Someone (their name is redacted on the Lumen database) made a defamation complaint to Google about this post:
After reading your article I feel without sufficient evidence you are making accusations. Leave it to the authorities to do their job. You are not the judge.
@Sam. – After re-reading this post I can’t find a single accusation in it. I’m just reporting information that’s available in the public domain.
@Sam
I am assuming you are the brother of Mohsin Salya who is called Samir Salya aka Sam.
I believe I have read recent articles where you have made yourself out to be some sort of property developer. I am sure the authorities in Germany and in the UAE will not take long to work out who is laundering the ill gotten gains of the rest off the Salya family.
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/samir-salya#/entity
letting you know Yasin Saliya at it again pulling scums,
http://www.asianage.com/metros/mumbai/101216/bombay-high-court-seeks-police-reply-over-note-fraud-of-uk-man.html
The whole lot are corrupt . Innocent people losing money . Now this new Indus project in Pakistan , Nadeem Khan at it again . More innocent people will get hurt in the afterbirth .
This is sensationalism at it’s best. I’m not saying they are innocent (as I wouldn’t know) but I did knew Aadiel Salya extremely well for a few years and I cannot believe what I am reading in the papers. It doesn’t match the character of the person I knew. While the fraud may have taken place, such situations are complex and articles such as the above don’t fully incorporate all the details. You can get yourself involved in a mess through naïveté and misjudgment. I think this article is sensational and personally, I don’t think you can call it journalism. You should take it down.
@Anon. – Thanks for this. Obviously, this post doesn’t cover all the details. However, if there is anything inaccurate or incorrect in the post, please let me know, and I’ll correct it. I’m not going to remove the post just because you think I should.
I assume when you write “I cannot believe what I am reading in the papers”, you’re referring to articles like this from ITV in April 2017:
Six men sentenced for half-a-million pound fraud
“Aadiel Salya, aged 29, Walton Le Dale, Preston, two years imprisonment and a directors disqualification for seven years.”