(Demerara Waves) – The United States (U.S.) remains committed to the judicial process that could see billionaire gold dealers, Azruddin Mohamed and his father Nazar “Shell” Mohamed being extradited to that country to face trial for alleged financial crimes, American Ambassador to Guyana Nicole Theriot said on Wednesday.
“I want to make it incredibly clear that the U.S. government is totally and completely committed to seeing this through. We do not spend tens of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to request extradition when we don’t care about something,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the Guyana Energy Conference.
Ms Theriot’s comments came against the backdrop of word in some circles that the U.S. now seemed lukewarm to getting the Mohameds extradited to face trial in a federal court in Florida for alleged wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering linked to their gold trading business.
The American envoy effectively ruled out the U.S. government scrapping the extradition request for the Mohameds, following last October’s unsealing of an 11-count grand jury indictment against the duo.
