MFK: From prominent businessman to contract killing victim?

Mohamed Khan

From prominent businessman with a prime piece of real estate on Hadfield Street accommodating a towering building with a supermarket – former MFK Trading owner, Mohamed Khan appears to have become the latest victim of a contract killing.

A decapitated corpse found at Cummings Lodge last month appeared to have been clad with some of his belongings. Final confirmation by DNA testing would be key to identifying the remains even though many of his relatives and close friends have already concluded that it is indeed him after his wife identified a pants and a belt which were found on the corpse.

From all indications whoever the person is was tortured as the head was severed from the body and placed in a plastic bag, teeth were knocked out and the legs are missing. Whoever the victim, this type of killing is a hallmark of underworld connections.

Shortly after he was shot and wounded back in July, Khan had insisted to Stabroek News that there was a price on his dead. If the corpse is indeed him, this would confirm that.

Khan started out in a small-scale trading business before later building his landmark enterprise on Hadfield Street in the early 2000s.

This milestone in his life marked the birth of MFK Trading and it was through this venture that his prominence in the business