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The nation needs to know! …Opposition leader rebukes Govt. for hiding latest U.S. extradition requests
(Kaieteur News) – Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed, who is currently before the local courts battling an extradition request by the United States, used his maiden budget debate speech on Friday evening to urge government Members of Parliament (MPs) to release details on a second extradition request received from the U.S. last year.
Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, S.C
“Let the nation know about the extradition request that came here… that is transparency and accountability. There is an extradition request since November and up to now, (they) cannot charge and bring these persons…” Mohamed said in the National Assembly.
Earlier on Friday, the extradition proceedings involving the newly elected opposition leader and his father, Nazar “Shell” Mohamed, continued at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Under cross-examination by attorney Siand Dhurjon, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sharon Roopchand acknowledged that another extradition request for a Guyanese was received on November 25, 2025. However, no information was given in court as to the identity of that person or whether the police had acted on the request.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hugh Todd
Minister of Home Affairs Oneidge Walrond
In the National Assembly, amid heckling from government parliamentarians, Mohamed took aim at Minister of Home Affairs Oneidge Walrond, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hugh Todd, and Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, S.C., urging them to disclose details of the other extradition request.
“A matter of national importance, we have an extradition request here since in November 2025, please make it known to the public…please make it known to the public,” Mohamed said.
On the morning of October 31, 2025, Azruddin and Nazar were arrested by ranks of the Guyana Police Force, acting on a warrant issued by a Georgetown magistrate following a formal extradition request from the United States. The father-son duo came one day after the extradition request was transmitted to the Guyana Government on October 30, 2025.
The request followed the Mohamed’s indictment in a U.S. federal court in Miami, Florida on 11 charges of wire and mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and the importation of a Lamborghini luxury car – all stemming from accusations of massive tax fraud committed against Guyana. The indictment, unsealed on October 2, 2025, accused the Mohameds of orchestrating an elaborate fraud and money-laundering scheme involving gold exports, customs fraud, bribery, and the evasion of millions in taxes and royalties owed to Guyana.
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Azruddin Mohamed revealed what the entire country had not known.
Guyana Government received another “extradition request” since last
November and kept it SECRET. Because, they want Judy Latchman
the present Magistrate in the Mohameds case, to rule favorably in the
Government. Never mind, those in the secret second extradition, are
allowed to continue their trade doing what must be profitable for them, and
the kickbacks, if any ? to the boys higher ups ? C’mon on, everybody, well,
some know there is payoff to continue in business, legal or otherwise.
NOW, the CAT IS OUT OF THE BOX, Will Irfan, Jagdeo, Nandlall reveal
who are in the secret second extradition ? GUYANA WANTS TO KNOW.