GEORGETOWN/WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 12, 2025 – “The walls are closing in on Bharrat Jagdeo’s inner circle as explosive revelations emerge about one of his closest allies and financial backers”, so says a bombshell statement released by the CGID organization. Tamesh Jagmohan, a wealthy businessman and key financier of Guyana’s ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), is now allegedly the target of a major U.S. federal investigation for allegedly smuggling Venezuelan gold into the United States, with profits allegedly funneled to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.
In a blockbuster video interview released yesterday, Guyanese businessman Junior Baksh dropped shocking allegations, detailing how Jagmohan allegedly orchestrated a multi-million-dollar gold smuggling operation with ties to Venezuelan military officials under Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
“The gold comes from Venezuelan generals, big bars stamped 99.99% pure,” Baksh told journalist Travis Chase. “Andre Parag (a reported cousin of PPP Minister Sonia Parag) buys it in Boa Vista, smuggles it into Lethem, and delivers it to Jagmohan’s office. He then orders us to dilute it with lower-grade gold to avoid detection before shipping it to the U.S.”
According to the CGID statement, Baksh’s testimony directly aligns with a joint FBI, U.S. Justice Department, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) investigation, which confirms Jagmohan’s alleged criminal network.
A damning Justice Department complaint reveals that Jagmohan and his associates fraudulently imported gold into the U.S. as “semi-precious metal”, allowing them to dodge millions in U.S. import taxes. Worse yet, investigators found that a portion of the illicit profits was allegedly secretly sent to Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) currently waging war against Israel.
“This is not just about smuggling, it’s about financing terror,” a senior U.S. law enforcement official stated. “Jagmohan’s operation has blood on its hands.”
In a devastating blow, Jagmohan has allegedly been officially placed on the U.S. terrorism no-fly list, barring him from entering the country under Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which blocks individuals tied to terrorist activities.
A U.S. State Department source confirmed:
“Tamesh Jagmohan is inadmissible to the United States due to his terrorism-related affiliations.”
The investigation also exposes Jagmohan’s deep financial ties to the PPP, alleging that he funneled millions in dirty money, earned from gold smuggling, into the party’s election campaigns.
“This is state-sponsored corruption at the highest level,” said Richard Millington, Esq., Director of Communications for the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID). “While Jagdeo labels critics as ‘criminals,’ his own financiers are funding terror and laundering blood gold.”
Facing mounting evidence, Jagmohan issued a denial, stating, “I categorically deny all allegations… I operate within Guyana’s laws.”
But the U.S. government’s findings tell a different story, one of fraud, smuggling, and terror financing.
This scandal threatens to collapse the PPP’s carefully crafted façade. With multiple Jagdeo allies now under U.S. scrutiny, the question is, Who else is involved?
As the FBI tightens its net, Guyana’s political elite may soon face unavoidable consequences.
