{"id":63882,"date":"2025-11-28T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63882\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:02:07","slug":"gold-mining-tycoons-in-guyana-fight-u-s-extradition-after-miami-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63882\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold mining tycoons in Guyana fight U.S. extradition after Miami indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Guyanese gold mining tycoons Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin Mohamed are both wanted in Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As they fought their extradition in Guyana, federal prosecutors released a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl\/pr\/former-guyanese-presidential-candidate-and-businessman-charged-50-million-tax-evasion\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl\/pr\/former-guyanese-presidential-candidate-and-businessman-charged-50-million-tax-evasion\">on Friday announcing they had been charged in a $50 million tax evasion and money laundering scheme<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Azruddin Mohamed, 38, an incoming member of Guyana\u2019s parliament as the leader of the We Invest in Nationhood party, lost the presidential election to <a href=\"https:\/\/op.gov.gy\/presidents-biography\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/op.gov.gy\/presidents-biography\/\">Irfaan Ali<\/a>, who voters re-elected for a second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/hsi-new-york-joins-department-treasury-announcing-sanctions-against-corruption\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/hsi-new-york-joins-department-treasury-announcing-sanctions-against-corruption\">In 2024<\/a>, the U.S. sanctioned them over accusations of public corruption and seized about $5.3 million in gold bars at Miami International Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A federal grand jury in Miami indicted them on Oct. 2. Guyanese law enforcement arrested them on Oct. 31 in Georgetown. A Guyanese judge released them on a $750 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The indictment alleges that Mohamed\u2019s Enterprise, a gold wholesaler with buyers in Miami and Dubai, avoided paying taxes and royalties on shipments from 2017 to June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They allegedly reused official government seals and paid bribes in a scheme that cost the Guyanese government about $50 million, according to the indictment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Azruddin Mohamed also allegedly evaded over $1 million in Guyanese taxes to ship a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZAm_FIjqSQ\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZAm_FIjqSQ\">Lamborghini<\/a> from Miami to Guyana in 2020, according to the indictment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Azruddin Mohamed faces charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nazar Mohamed faces charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and mail fraud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Homeland Security Investigations Miami and New York, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the U.S. Marshals Service were among the federal agencies involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Guyanese gold mining tycoons Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin Mohamed are both wanted in Miami.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-63882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}