The Guyana Police Force has issued two differing accounts of an investigation into a 20-year-old constable accused of providing surveillance footage to Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed in exchange for GY$800,000.
While both statements describe the same alleged transaction, they differ significantly in how they present the case. One frames the disclosure and payment as allegations still being examined. The other gives a detailed account of what police say was an admission by the constable, including claims that Mohamed instructed him to obtain the footage and subsequently paid him in cash.
Both statements say investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested the constable, who is stationed at the Force’s Command Centre, on Monday, October 26, 2026.
The police initially said preliminary investigations indicated that surveillance footage relating to a shooting outside the residence and surrounding area of a senior police officer was allegedly downloaded without authorisation on Friday, October 23, and transferred to an external storage device.
“Investigators are examining allegations that the footage was provided to Opposition Leader Mr. Azruddin Mohamed in exchange for GY$800,000 on Saturday October 24, 2026,” that statement said.
It did not identify the senior officer, describe an alleged confession or provide details about how the purported exchange took place.
The other statement went substantially further. It identified the officer as Senior Superintendent Prem Narine and asserted that the constable admitted downloading the footage while on duty and saving it to a flash drive on Mohamed’s instructions.
According to that police account, Mohamed allegedly dispatched an employee the following day to transport the constable to his residence in Houston, East Bank Demerara. Police claimed Mohamed then paid the constable GY$800,000 in cash and collected the flash drive.
That statement also alleged that the constable spent some of the money on a shopping spree and gave the remainder to his mother. It said detectives were attempting to recover the “bribe money.”
The police statement came hours after Mohamed published the footage on Facebook.
