On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, Georgetown’s Chief Magistrate Judy Latchman delivered her second consecutive ruling denying a U.S. prosecution request to revoke Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed’s bail, as the high-profile extradition case against Mohamed and his father over alleged U.S.-based financial crimes moves through Guyanese courts.
Representing the U.S. government, prosecutor Glen Hanoman had filed the formal bail revocation application, citing multiple clauses under Guyana’s Bail Act that outline grounds for revoking pre-trial release: commission of a new non-fine-only offense while on bail, pending serious charges tied to an ongoing murder investigation, witness interference, evidence tampering, or obstruction of the judicial process.
But in her formal bench decision, Magistrate Latchman emphasized that unproven charges alone do not meet the legal threshold for revoking bail. She clarified that Hanoman’s application lacked the substantial, documented evidence required to prove Mohamed had violated existing bail terms, posed an imminent flight risk, or was likely to obstruct the ongoing extradition proceedings. The magistrate specifically pushed back against the prosecution’s unsubstantiated claim that Mohamed had misled the court about his official residential address, noting no verifiable, concrete proof had been submitted to contradict the contact information the opposition leader provided to the court.
Hanoman had also anchored his revocation request to separate pending allegations against Mohamed, including accusations of interfering with Guyana Police Force intelligence chief Senior Superintendent Prem Narine, tampering with police CCTV footage, and obstructing justice in unrelated local cases. But Magistrate Latchman ruled that none of these unproven allegations, nor the existing slate of separate charges facing Mohamed in Guyanese courts, constituted sufficient grounds to strip him of his bail status in the extradition matter. She advised the U.S. prosecution that they could resubmit their application at a later date if they supplemented it with sworn, supporting affidavits that provide tangible proof of the alleged bail breaches.
This Tuesday ruling follows a nearly identical decision the previous day, when Magistrate Latchman rejected a parallel bail revocation bid filed on behalf of the U.S. by Jamaican attorney Herbert Mc Kenzie. Mohamed is currently being held at Lusignan Prison on a separate local cybercrime charge, accused of obtaining and distributing restricted police CCTV footage classified as national security data; two serving police officers have also been charged alongside him in that unrelated case. Immediately after Monday’s ruling, Mohamed’s mother had submitted a separate bail petition on his behalf, offering a personal guarantee that she would ensure her son appears for all scheduled future court dates.
BREAKING: Chief Magistrate again refuses to revoke Azruddin Mohamed’s bail
