Gateway Service State in Peter's Rest, St. Croix Photo: VIC

According to court records, in 2020, Naser brought legal action against his brother, Mustafa Ali, saying he had reneged on a settlement that resolved a family business dispute. According to the settlement, Naser would fully enjoy his ownership interest in Gateway Service Station after seven years of flat-rate monthly “lease” payments from Mustafa. These payments were duly made until September 2019, when Naser’s full ownership interest was to be honored. According to Naser, that never occurred.

“Mustafa, despite Naser's adjudicated share in the business, has failed and refused to pay any funds whatsoever to Naser since September 1, 2019,” the new civil complaint, filed Thursday, states.

Last January, the court reportedly issued a partial summary judgment in the 2020 matter “upholding the validity of the settlement agreement and the validity of Naser's percentage ownership interest in Gateway.”

However, Naser alleges that his brother Mustafa and cousin Walid Abdallah, Gateway's co-manager, are hiding Gateway's true revenues. “Specifically, the financial reports fail to fully acknowledge and account for massive amounts of cash revenues obtained by Gateway from the sales of fuel and consumer merchandise,” the complaint alleges. This is a practice “systematically undertaken to obfuscate and conceal the true income of the business, and thus Naser's lawful share thereof.”

Accusations of hoarding & hiding cash 

Naser accuses his brother of hoarding and hiding “massive amounts of cash generated by the business, in an effort to conceal assets.” The original matter is still before the courts after multiple failed mediation attempts. Defendants and plaintiffs are seemingly unable to agree on Gateway's true financial status.

The new complaint also accuses Mustafa of fraudulently transferring title of his residential property and a rental property to Mr. Abdallah in order to conceal his assets from Naser. The transfers occurred in August 2025. “Defendant Abdallah was and is a mere nominal title holder, with no true ownership in the property. The conveyance of the property to Defendant Abdallah was a sham, calculated by Mustafa to conceal his actual ownership of the property and thereby evade enforcement of his adjudicated indebtedness” in the original 2020 lawsuit, the new complaint alleges. The lawsuit claims that Mustafa retains beneficial ownership of the properties, continuing to live at the residence and paying the taxes on both properties.

Naser's complaint asks the court to declare the property transfers fraudulent and to order a freeze on any further transfer of the properties or proceeds of the sale, among other remedies.

A response from Mustafa and Mr. Abdallah has not yet been filed as of press time.