Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, S.C., has warned that enforcement action will be taken to recover court-ordered costs from businessmen Azruddin and Nazar Mohamed after the Court of Appeal dismissed their challenge to extradition proceedings.
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously upheld a February High Court ruling and awarded a further $3 million in costs — $1.5 million each to the Minister of Home Affairs and the Attorney General. That award, when added to the $1.5 million previously ordered by the High Court, brings the total costs the father and son now owe to $4.5 million.
According to a March 11, 2026 letter from the Attorney General’s Chambers to Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, the sums ordered by the High Court have not been paid. The chambers said the High Court had directed payment of $500,000 to each respondent (including the State) by February 27, 2026, but that the deadline passed without compliance.
“We are not in receipt of any payment of costs as per the Court’s Order, and note that the time stipulated for compliance has since passed,” the correspondence stated, and it demanded payment “forthwith.” The Attorney General warned that failure to comply would prompt steps to enforce the court’s orders.
The Court of Appeal’s judgment rejected the Mohamed brothers’ arguments that political bias disqualified the Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond, from issuing the Authority to Proceed (ATP) in the United States extradition request, and dismissed allegations that legal advice from the Attorney General was tainted by partiality. The appellate panel — Acting Chancellor Roxane George and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Nareshwar Harnanan — described the appeal as without merit and dismissed it in full.
With the appellate ruling now final, the Attorney General said further correspondence will be sent seeking recovery of the additional costs awarded by the Court of Appeal and indicated the State is prepared to move to enforcement measures if the Mohameds fail to pay.
The ruling clears the way for extradition proceedings to continue before the Magistrate’s Court. The Government has said it will pursue both the ongoing extradition process and recovery of court costs as separate matters.
