GEORGETOWN – Azruddin Mohamed, Leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) movement and newly sworn-in MP, has launched a blistering response to the withdrawal of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Lamborghini tax-evasion case, calling it “another win for the Mohameds” and accusing the government of burning through more than $100 million in taxpayers’ money on what he describes as a politically engineered spectacle.
Mohamed said the collapse of the case validates his long-standing claim that the charges were never about taxation or legality, but about attempting to cripple his presidential campaign. “As I predicted several days ago,” he wrote, “the PPP government has discontinued the very case it politicized to destroy my name. From day one, this was never about justice or due process.”
He recounted the now-abandoned GRA operation at his private residence, describing it as a calculated move designed to intimidate and publicly humiliate him. According to Mohamed, the storming of his home more than seven months ago was staged under political instruction, fueled by accusations that his Lamborghini had been undervalued.
What he insists should have been a routine administrative query escalated into a full-blown confrontation involving GRA officials and police ranks.Mohamed also alleged that the same authorities who approved the vehicle’s importation later turned around and sanctioned his arrest.
He said they not only facilitated the documentation but even brought relatives to admire and take photos of the luxury car when it landed in Guyana. “Let the record show,” he said, “that the very officials who handcuffed me were the ones who approved every step of the process.”
Claiming political pressure at the highest levels, Mohamed said he was warned, before receiving any notice, that his vehicles would be seized unless he publicly withdrew from the presidential race. He maintains that the confiscation threat was executed as promised in a bid to “pressure me out of the race and make me bend to their will.”
Mohamed said the state poured staggering sums into the now-scrapped case, including hiring more than a dozen lawyers and retaining former Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Anand Ramlogan. He added that roughly $25 million per month was being spent on foreign legal teams and lobbyists.
“This is how far the PPP will go to persecute one citizen who refuses to bow,” he said. He questioned how government could justify such spending “while half of our citizens live in poverty,” insisting that national funds are being wasted on political warfare instead of easing the struggles of ordinary Guyanese.
According to Mohamed, the administration quietly dropped the matter because continuing any further would expose who actually oversaw and facilitated the importation process. “They know the trail leads directly to their own doorstep,” he declared.
Mohamed added that magistrates, lawyers, GRA personnel, police, and civil servants were pulled into proceedings that he believes amounted to an abuse of process. His family, he said, endured trauma and “immense personal cost” as the case unfolded.
Calling the entire episode unlawful, immoral, and a misuse of state machinery, Mohamed said the government must now answer for the millions spent on what he labels a reckless, politically driven fiasco.
