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‘I am innocent; they treated me like a criminal’ – AZ MO.
(Kaieteur News) – Businessman and leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Party, Azruddin Mohamed on Friday reacted to the manner in which he was arrested by ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), stating that they treated him like “a criminal.”
Businessman Azruddin Mohamed being arrested in front of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) office on Smyth Street, Georgetown on Friday morning.
On Friday, Azruddin and his father Nazar Mohamed were arrested at two separate locations by local law enforcement authorities following an extradition request from the Government of the United States of America (USA).
Videos of the arrests surfacing on social media, showed the younger Mohamed being accosted in front of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) office on Smyth Street, Georgetown. He was surrounded by a party of masked policemen with firearms who showed up in several police vehicles. The businessman was handcuffed then placed at the back of a police pickup.
Azruddin told journalists outside the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Friday, “Oh my, the manner that I was arrested, I thought I was a criminal… They had Narine and Sarabo pulled up with six, seven vehicles with more than 20 gunmen (police officers) in mask. I thought they wanted to kill me there. I thought they wanted to execute me right there.”
He continued, “So I asked, what is the problem? Because there are the same guys that follow my move every day, these special branch guys, every day they follow my move.”
Following his arrest, the businessman and his father were taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Eve Leary.
In an interview with reporters outside CID, his sister Hana Mohamed, said the senior Mohamed was arrested at Lombard Street. “Yeah, I did hear that they arrested both my brother Azruddin Mohamed and our elderly father, Nazar Mohamed, (they) confiscated their phones and as well as the phones of their employees. And I heard that they threw Azruddin Mohamed in the back of a pickup truck on direct orders, and our elderly father in a car,” she shared.
While her brother is expected to be sworn in as a member of parliament (MP) on Monday, the woman further expressed, “Nearly 110,000 of Guyanese citizens voice their choice on September 1 for their representative, and if this is a deliberate tactic to prevent him from taking that role, then all I can say is that we’re at a very sad state.”
Meanwhile, in letter address to Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond dated October 6, 2025, lawyer for the Mohameds, Siand Dhurjon addressed his clients’ willingness to participate in lawful processes and surrender to custody in relation to the indictment filed against them in the USA.
A copy of the letter from the Mohameds lawyer which was written to the Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond.
“My clients have observed a purported indictment filed against them in the United States of America on behalf of the American government indicting them with the commission of eleven (11) offences. Please note that my clients have every intention to participate in the lawful extradition processes provided for under the Fugitive Offenders Act, Cap. 10:04 to vindicate themselves therein. To this end, my clients intend to surrender to the authorities whensoever the relevant formal processes, i.e., the necessary warrants), whether provisional or otherwise, and/or the authority to proceed, are executed,” the letter stated.
The lawyer even provided contact numbers of him and his clients “to arrange for their surrender at the appropriate time.”
Following news of the Mohameds’ arrest and court appearance, supporters of the WIN Party leader lined the front the court building to show support with chants of “Free, free Mohamed.”
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These masked gunmen, black clothing, guns drawn could have been a
move script that others could emulate. Just imagine had they not being
real police, fake vehicles ?