DARUL Uloom Masjid Imam, Badrudeen Khan, has made public official US Department of Homeland Security interview records which show he was directly questioned by American authorities in July 2024 about his relationship with US-sanctioned businessman Azruddin Mohamed.

The documents, seen by the Guyana Chronicle, record that US officials also asked Imam Khan about changes to WhatsApp settings enabling disappearing messages in his conversations with Mohamed, and the reason behind such a change.

He was further questioned on how long he had known the businessman and the nature of their relationship.
In July 2024, it was reported that the Imam was refused entry to the United States, and had his visa revoked following his arrival at the John F. Kennedy Airport, New York.

He subsequently publicly distanced himself from the Mohameds, warning that others could face similar consequences if they maintained ties with the family.
He has since come under criticism from members of the Mohamed family and members of their recently-formed party, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), who have claimed that his visa loss was not related to the Mohameds.

Azruddin, along with his father, Nazar Mohamed and their businesses, namely Mohamed’s Enterprise, Hadi’s World and Team Mohamed’s Racing, on June 11, 2024, were sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which oversees sanctions against individuals and entities tied to illicit activities and hostile foreign governments.
In a June 2024 statement, the OFAC stated, “Azruddin and Mohamed’s Enterprise evaded Guyana’s tax on gold exports and defrauded the Guyanese government of tax revenues by under-declaring their gold exports to Guyanese authorities.

Between 2019 and 2023, Mohamed’s Enterprise omitted more than 10 thousand kilogrammes of gold from import-and-export declarations and avoided paying more than US$50 million in duty taxes to the Government of Guyana.”