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Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday said the Guyana government was cautious about seizing firearms in the possession of Mohamed’s Enterprise whose foreign exchange and gold dealers operations have been already effectively shut down due to United States Treasury Department sanctions. Usually, Mohamed’s Enterprise on Lombard Street was secured by guards armed with rifles, but the Home Affairs Minister ...

The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) is finalising preparations to revoke the Mohameds gold dealership license, following the United States’ imposition of sanctions on Nazar “Shell” Mohamed and his son Azruddin, according to well-placed sources. The effect of the sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for allegedly defrauding Guyana of US$50 million on 10 kilogrammes ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Thomas was last year asked by United States law enforcers about wealthy Guyanese businessmen Nazar Mohammed and his son, Azruddin, who were slapped with sanctions for alleged corruption in Guyana. Ms Thomas’ mobile phone was seized and her United States visa revoked ...

In the wake of the United States (US) sanctions on wealthy Guyanese Nazar Mohamed and his son, Azruddin, as well as their businesses for alleged corruption, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Mohamed’s foreign exchange dealer’s (cambio) licence would be cancelled. Mr Jagdeo said the Bank of Guyana has already informed the Mohameds that their cambio licence would be struck off. ...

The Guyana government 0n Tuesday sent Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on leave, hours after the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) linked her to several alleged crimes with the Mohameds, regarded as super wealthy Guyanese businessmen. “The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Ms. Mae Thomas has been sent on leave with immediate effect,” the ...

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned members of one of Guyana’s wealthiest families, Nazar Mohamed (Nazar) and his son, Azruddin Mohamed (Azruddin), their company, Mohamed’s Enterprise, and a Guyanese government official, Mae Thomas (Thomas), for their roles in alleged public corruption in Guyana. Additionally, OFAC designated two other entities, Hadi’s World ...