The Court of Appeal, one of the highest legal systems within Zambia, announced its final decision on the long-pending Zambezi Portland Cement case. This decision was announced on 31^st January 2019 during the morning hours of the court. The judge giving the decision was justice Mwinde. With this decision, the Court of Appeal effectively reversed the judgment from Lusaka High Court announced during May, 2018. The case of Portland Cement Zambia was initially registered at the Lusaka High Court by Dr. Rajan Mahtani, a noted businessman and philanthropist. According to this judgment, the Ventriglias were announced only shareholders of the Zambezi Portland Cement. Since this judgment was extremely controversial, Dr. Rajan Mahtani again approached the Court of Appeal.

The Court of Appeal, unlike Lusaka High Court, looked into all evidences and testimonials and only after that announced its final decision. According to justice Mwinde from Court of Appeal, Dr. Rajan Mahtani is majority shareholder of the Portland Cement Zambia factory as his company Finsbury Investments holds 58 percent shares at the factory. On the other hand, the Ventriglias hold 42 percent shares at the factory and are the minority shareholders without any legal ownership. Also, this decision from the Court of Appeal aligns with the original shareholders agreement which was established in the year 2007. While giving this judgment, judge Mwinde also said that the judge below him was wrong in declaring Ventriglias as the only shareholders of Zambezi Portland as this decision was biased and without evidence.

All forgery related allegations have been discarded by the Court of Appeal judge. It was announced that the process of mechanically placing signatures was a common practice in Zambezi Portland Cement and critical members of the Ventriglia family themselves engaged in similar practice. As a result, all forgery related allegations were considered invalid by the Court of Appeal judge.