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Mohameds’ offer to surrender ignored as police makes ‘sneaky arrest’
(Kaieteur News) – From willing surrender to a sudden police grab, this was the story the Mohameds on Friday after heavily armed special branch ranks dressed in all black with ski masks pounced on them in a ‘sneaky arrest’.
Nazar Mohamed, and his son Azruddin Mohamed being escorted to the Georgetown Magistrate Court on Sunday by masked officers.
The We Invest In Nationhood (WIN) party leader, Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed were arrested in what is being dubbed as a public spectacle.
Mohamed Jr.’s arrest was caught on camera in the vicinity of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) licensing and certifying office on Smyth Street, Charlestown, Georgetown.
Cell-phone recorded videos showed masked men grabbing and hand-cuffing him before forcing him into the back of a police pick-up.
His father, the senior Mohamed was picked up from another location. They were later seen on camera handcuffed together and escorted by the same special branch ranks to the Georgetown Magistrate Court for an Extradition hearing. The hearing came weeks after the father and son were indicted by the United States of America (USA) over US$50M gold, fraud and money laundering case.
The Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC. and the Guyana Police Force in separate statements confirmed that arrests we made in response to an extradition request made by the USA.
The father and son were granted bail by Magistrate Judy Latchman following the hearing and they are expected to return to court on November 10.
However, one of their lawyers, Sian Dhurjon expressed shock at the Mohamed’s sneaky and surprise arrest. He told reporters at the court.
The letter that sent to the respective authorities by the the Mohameds’ lawyer.
“Yes we are shocked cause we wrote, we took steps to the write the AG (Attorney General), the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali Hack Sc.) the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Commissioner of Police (Clifton Hicken), basically telling them to hang on a sec, we saw this indictment. We would surrender our clients when they are ready, you don’t need to arrest and then they sneakily do all of this today”, Dhurjon said.
The letter written by Dhujon Chambers was dated October 6 and was titled “Willingness of Nazar Mohamed and Azruddin Mohamed to participate in lawful purposes and surrender to custody.”
A section of the letter stated, “Please note that my clients have every intention to participate in the lawful extradition processes provided for under the fugitive offender’s act Cap. 10:04 to vindicate themselves within.”
The letter further stated, “To this end, my clients intend to surrender to authorities whensoever the relevant formal processes, i.e., the necessary warrant(s), whether provisional or otherwise, and/or the authority to proceed, are executed.
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