BREAKING NEWS
TOP PPP FINANCIER AND OWNER OF ELDORADO TRADING TAMESH JAGMOHAN UNDER JOINT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BY US, UK AND CANADIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR MASTERMINDING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
By Staff Writer
December 30, 2020. 7:15 P.M
The owner of Eldorado Trading , Guyana’s largest gold mining company - Tamesh Jagmohan, is known as the largest gold dealer in Guyana. However, Jagmohan is also allegedly one of the biggest international criminals who is being pursued by multiple law enforcement agencies around the world.
Jagmohan is currently being investigated by British and Canadian authorities for gold smuggling, fraud and other illegal activities. Venezuelan authorities have apparently joined the multinational investigation, which has also implicated officials at the Guyana Gold Board.
A number of Gold Board officials who are or were located in Bartica and other parts of Essequibo were complicit in Jagmohan’s alleged criminal schemes under surveillance and may be nabbed by US law enforcement if they travel internationally.
US Federal officials have also been investigating Jagmohan for narcotics trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering and illegally funneling money to international terrorists in the Middle East. The US criminal investigation is being conducted by a task force which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Justice Department and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. The Canadian Border Services Agency and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are also involved in the investigation.
Jagmohan was also under investigation by Guyana Police for allegedly supplying Charrandass Persaud with US $1 million in gold as an alleged bribe for voting with the PPP for the No Confidence Motion in Parliament on December 21, 2018, which toppled the Granger APNU-AFC coalition government.
Persaud, a Canadian citizen who was unlawfully elected to Parliament, escaped to Canada after the vote. He was escorted to the Eugene Correia Airport at Ogle, by Canadian diplomats who were allegedly operating with the tacit approval of then Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Lillian Chaterjee.
US Immigration authorities revoked Jagmohan's US visa on March 4, 2014, and banned him from traveling to the United States as their investigation intensified. The CBP and FBI are investigating Jagmohan's criminal activities which they traced from Guyana to Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Trinidad & Tobago, China, Canada, Queens and Brooklyn, New York, Newark and Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida.
Law enforcement authorities say months of surveillance revealed that Jagmohan also illegally smuggles low grade Venezuelan gold into Guyana through Region 1. The cheap Venezuelan gold is then mixed with Guyana gold and sold to the Guyana Gold Board. This is a serious crime under the laws of Guyana. Jagmohan also illegally smuggles the impure gold to several countries, including those listed above.
US authorities have been scrutinizing dozens of Jagmohan's workers and associates who are connected to his criminal enterprise. These individuals are based in Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Belleville, New York; Newark and Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida.
Earlier this year US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, faced a barrage of blistering criticism when she traveled to Essequibo on March 2, 2020, in a Roraima Airways plane with Jagmohan and a team from the Guyana Private Sector Commission (PSC), allegedly to observe the elections on the Essequibo coast. The Ambassador then had dinner at Jagmohan's home. She used Jagmohan's vehicle to visit polling places along the coast.
