[2][3] He is reported to own Sunspace International, a holding company registered in the Seychelles, and a founding patron of the Ezra Track Team Board, a sports philanthropic financing and talent search agency.

In August 1999, Ezra was arrested and charged with using fake ID to present himself as an officer of the Directorate of Military Intelligence and using to this to try to extort US$50,000.

[1] In August 2010, upon arrival in his home country, the local media reported that Michael Ezra had not remitted taxes to the tune of USh 1.1 billion (approximately US$500,000) to the Uganda government.

[26] In September 2010, he called a press conference at the luxurious Emin Pasha hotel in Kampala and displayed a stack of $3 million dollars as though to prove that he was not broke as alleged in the Ugandan media.

He further argued that Ezra was a prominent international businessman who owned numerous properties in Kenya and was not arrested but handed himself to the authorities and therefore was not a flight risk.