GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct 28, CMC – Police Wednesday arrested Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed at his Eccles, East Bank Demerara residence as they continue their probe into his possession of a government surveillance video related to a shooting incident earlier this month
Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Deputy Commissioner Wendell Blanhum confirmed that the arrest of the businessman turned politician.
“I can confirm that Mr Azruddin Mohamed was arrested,” Blanhum said.
Media reports said the arrest of Mohamed, the leader of the main opposition We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party follows the ongoing investigation into alleged corrupt transaction involving a 20-year old policeman.
The policeman and his mother on Wednesday also remained in police custody, prompting his father to move to the High Court to produce them in court or order their release from custody with or without condition.
Earlier this week, the GPF said hat the police constable had been arrested amid allegations that he had discreetly downloaded surveillance video footage related to a shooting incident involving Senior Superintendent Prem Narine and Mohamed.
Mohamed, along with two of his workers, have since been placed on GUY$750,000 (One GUY=US$0.004 cents) bail on gun and ammunition possession charges and attempting to pervert the course of justice by discharging a firearmn as a result of the incident on October 12.
In a statement, the GPF said that on Saturday, October 24, Mohamed dispatched an employee to transport the constable to his residence in Houston, East Bank Demerara.
“At the location, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed allegedly paid the rank the sum of GUY$800,000 in exchange for the recording.”
The GPF statement said that the police constable “further disclosed that he spent a portion of the bribe money during a shopping spree and handed the remaining cash to his mother.
“As a consequence, the Police Constable has been placed under arrest. Detectives are currently making earnest efforts to retrieve the bribe money, and the investigation into the commission of several offences remain ongoing,” the GPF said.
Mohamed had this week played a 23-minute video as he repeated claims of an alleged “failed assassination attempt of the Leader of the Opposition” on October 12.
Mohamed said he intends to file private criminal charges against Narine maintaining that the shooting on the night of October 12 was an assassination attempt.
Mohamed said that the surveillance video recordings of the incident had been captured by the Government’s Safe Country Initiative CCTV cameras and that he had obtained the footage from the Special Branch unit of the Police Force.
He said that the footage clearly shows an attempt being made on his life .
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