“Everything in my farm is accounted for through legitimate means” – Pres Ali

…exposes duplicitous lies, misinformation by US-sanctioned LOO

President Dr Irfaan Ali has refuted allegations levelled against him regarding his privately-owned farm on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, declaring that the land and everything else on the property were obtained through legitimate investments.
The Head of State’s clarification comes on the heels of a misinformation campaign being peddled by the United States-sanctioned and indicted Opposition leader, Azruddin Mohamed, who had been making a series of corruption claims and questioning the source of the President’s investment in the farm.
Ali made it clear that he is “not in that category or bracket” as the Opposition leader, who is yet to make the required declarations to the Integrity Commission as a public officer and has not taken a single loan for the wealth he has accumulated.
“Everything on my farm can be accounted for through legitimate means,” the Guyanese leader stated in a video on Thursday, fresh off his attendance at the 51st CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting held in St Lucia this week.
“Let me be very clear: I have not sought any special treatment, any benefit, or any investment by the state. My farm carries a huge loan, and everything has been disclosed to the Integrity Commission in and out of Government. There is absolutely nothing to hide,” he declared.
According to Ali, the existence of his farm had been long known and is in fact public information contrary to the Opposition’s recent “discovery” of the property. In fact, he noted that the farmland was obtained through the same process and conditions that apply to any other person who has secured leased lands on the highway.
“The discoverer himself…knows about the existence of my farm. A farm that I have built and can account for every single, every single investment in that farm… You can check with all of the established entities…and you would see that the farm has been in existence,” Ali emphasised.

Mohamed lied
Moreover, he further pointed out that the size of his farm is not even half what is being claimed by the Opposition. Similarly, he rejected claims that the farm is making a huge amount of money, adding that “I wish if I can even get 20 per cent of that investment for the entire farm now.”
“Everyone around me on the highway, all the major investors, they know and every single condition that governs lease lands on the highway are the same condition governing my lands – no preferential, no differential, hundreds of farms, leases [and] larger. [This is] a man who benefited from tens of thousands of acreage of mining concessions, thousands of acreage of quarrying concessions,” Ali noted of the Opposition leader.

Deception, mischief, misrepresentation
Only last weekend, President Ali had disclosed that he was being blackmailed by the Mohameds’ family into easing pressures on them regarding the ongoing extradition proceedings. In fact, he revealed that he had received a number of communications from the Mohameds over the past weeks threatening to release certain information if amends were not made.
During Thursday’s video, the Head of State read the last text message received from the sanctioned family as recent as Friday, which read in part, “I have this recording that was sent to me. I went through during the election cycle. I refrained from releasing. But if you don’t end all this madness, I will.”
According to Ali, he is being accused of concocting the charges against the father-and-son duo when it was in fact the United States Government that first sanctioned the businessmen and charged them.
“These sanctions did not come from President Ali. It did not come from the PPP/Civic Government. It came from the United States of America… These charges and sanctions did not come from Irfaan Ali. It came from the United States. And I have a duty and responsibility… My conscience is clear. You can call me a farmer. It’s a title I hold with honour. Because I am proud of everything I have done. And my conscience is clear… I don’t need the Government to do any of the infrastructure investment in the farm. It is hard work. It is huge loans.”
“Not only is the blackmail clear, but also the lies of deception, the mischief, and the misrepresentation… I want people to see directly from me the misrepresentation and the mischief, the deception, and the lies. This people’s Progressive Party/Civic Government, this President, will continue to work relentlessly hard every single day for the people of this country. I’m not interested in the sideshows and the distraction and the videos that is sent to my phone and the recording.”

Sanctioned and indicted
Azruddin and his father, Nazar Mohamed, were indicted in October 2025 by a federal grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on 11 criminal charges, including wire fraud, mail fraud, tax evasion and money laundering. The charges are related to alleged irregularities in gold exports to the US through their company, Mohamed’s Enterprises.

The US has since requested the extradition of the Mohameds to face the indictments. The extradition proceedings are currently pending in the local courts.
The Mohameds are accused of conspiring to defraud the US and Guyanese Governments between 2017 and June 11, 2024. They are also accused of using a scheme to unlawfully obtain property by transmitting communications via interstate and foreign commerce, in violation of US law.
According to US prosecutors, the scheme aimed to enrich the Mohameds and defraud the Government of Guyana by evading taxes and royalties on gold exports. They allegedly reused Guyana customs declarations and official seals on multiple shipments to make it appear that taxes and royalties had been paid.
The other charge has to do with Azruddin Mohamed purchasing and importing a Lamborghini sports car to Guyana in 2020. The indictment alleges he directed someone to purchase the car for US$680,000, then falsify the invoice to state a value of US$75,300 to understate import taxes. If convicted, most charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and fines of up to US$250,000, while the money laundering charge carries a fine of US$500,000 or the value of the laundered property.
The US Government is seeking forfeiture of certain assets connected to the accused.
These indictments follow sanctions imposed a year earlier in June 2024 by the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on the Mohameds, their businesses, and Guyanese Government Permanent Secretary (PS) Mae Thomas in relation to the same allegations. The sanctions are related to the evasion of taxes on gold exports, with OFAC noting that between 2019 and 2023, Mohamed’s Enterprise omitted more than 10,000 kg of gold from import and export declarations and avoided paying more than US$50 million in duty taxes to the Government of Guyana.
Since the imposition of the sanctions more than two years ago, the Guyanese Government has suspended the licences of the Mohameds’ various businesses, while several Government entities and local businesses, including commercial banks, have cut ties with the Mohameds.
Azruddin founded the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party in June 2025 – one year after the sanctions were imposed – and contested the September 2025 General and Regional Elections, securing a seat in Parliament as leader of the Opposition.