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Jul 17, 2025 Letters
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News – Too many people are going over the top with wild and ridiculous claims in this election season. The latest is from a letter writer who accuses the PPPC of lack of transparency, but who does not have the courage to sign their full name (Media 7/15/2025).
The same “Singh” (only name given) claims that Azruddin Mohamed is being harassed. As usual, not a shred of evidence is produced. Singh is oblivious to the fact that Azruddin Mohamed was sanctioned by the United States, not by the GoG.
I draw Singh’s attention to the following as reported in the media – “Nazar Mohamed and their businesses, namely Mohamed’s Enterprise, Hadi’s World and Team Mohamed’s Racing, on June 11, 2024, were sanctioned by U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which oversees sanctions against individuals and entities tied to illicit activities and hostile foreign governments” (Guyana Chronicle 7/14/2025).
The OFAC also stated that – “Azruddin and Mohamed’s Enterprise evaded Guyana’s tax on gold exports and defrauded the Guyanese government of tax revenues by under-declaring their gold exports to Guyanese authorities (Ibid).
And according to the same source, “[b]etween 2019 and 2023, Mohamed’s Enterprise omitted more than 10 thousand kilogrammes of gold from import-and-export declarations and avoided paying more than US$50 million in duty taxes to the Government of Guyana” (Ibid).
The points noted above have been reported in numerous media sources.
Is it harassment to remind readers that Azruddin has signed up some people to his campaign who are not worthy of national leadership? “Doggie” has been charged with a number of infractions. The man from ANUG has been exposed for professional misconduct that would have forced immediate expulsion from any other decent political party. Here is a direct quotation from Stabroek News – “In December 2024, Dr. DeFrance publicly admitted to what he vaguely described as “misconduct” during a party press conference…”
The latest skullduggery appears to be a new ‘blue scrape motorcycle gang’ riding around town in ways that are intimidating. In a few cases, PPPC supporters have had their vehicles circled; in other cases, their party paraphernalia (flags, hats) snatched and trampled on.
If Singh has any complaints about the sanctions against Azruddin Mohamed, he should lodge them at the OFAC in Washington, DC.
Sincerely,
Dr. Randy Persaud
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