By: Staff Writer
October 10, 2025
Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party in Guyana who contested the 2025 general elections is facing possible extradition to the US on money laundering charges.
US authorities said that Mohamed and his businessman father Nazar “Shell” Mohamed have been charged with wire and mail fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, stemming from tax evasion on gold exports and the importation of a Lamborghini luxury car
If found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, the Mohameds, who were sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in June last year, could separately face a maximum of 20 years on each count, as well as maximum supervised release of three years, a maximum fine of US$250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or loss.
Anil Nandlall, attorney general and minister for legal affairs in Guyana said on his weekly “Issues of the News,” social media broadcast that Guyana is willing to facilitate this extradition to the US if need be.
Sherlock Isaacs, the Clerk of the Guyanese parliament has said that Mohamed will legally be able to serve in Parliament “unless and until he is convicted in a court of law.” Once he is, Isaacs said, Mohamed will be barred from doing so.
Mark Kirton, former Director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, noted Tuesday that such proceedings can wind on.
“The legal process can be lengthy, all the way to extradition,” Kirton said. “He can be a parliamentarian and opposition leader until the case ends.”
In his first public comments since the indictment, Mohamed cast blame Monday on his political opponents, saying “this is not just a personal attack, this is political, this is a fear tactic.”
The indictment is just the latest accusation against the bombastic businessman, who has flaunted his wide collection of luxury sports cars on his social media.
The indictment states that the property directly subject to forfeiture as a result of the alleged offenses includes, but is not limited to, the following: a shipment containing approximately US$5.3 million in gold bars shipped from Guyana by Mohamed ‘s Enterprise seized at Miami International Airport on June 11, 2024.
The unsealed US indictment states that in the case of Azruddin Mohamed, from in or around 2017, and continuing through on or about June 11 , 2024, in Miami-Dade County in the Southern District of Florida, and elsewhere, the defendants, did knowingly, and with the intent to further the objects of the conspiracy, combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with each other and others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit offenses against the United States.
The indictment states that the purpose of the conspiracy was for the defendants to unlawfully enrich themselves and defraud the government of Guyana in connection with taxes and royalties owed.
The US accuses the Mohameds of reusing empty boxes with intact Guyana Revenue Authority and Guyana Gold Board seals for “shipments of gold to make it appear that Mohamed’s Enterprise had paid Guyana taxes and royalties on shipments of gold when, in truth and in fact, Mohamed’s Enterprise had not paid them on those shipments of gold.”