Trinidad and Tobago national Gabriel Harragin, 32, says Guyana Police (GPF) have been advised not to lay charges against him following an investigation into allegations that intimate videos and nude photos of young women were shared online without their consent.
Harragin was arrested on Monday after several young women reportedly made complaints about explicit content circulating on social media. However, in an interview, Harragin claimed that police sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice, and that it returned with a recommendation that “no charges be laid.”
In the interview, Harragin denied deliberately uploading or releasing any explicit content and insisted that the videos circulating were not recorded in Guyana.
“They just did an interview with me… for me to prove that the sexual videos are not from this country… “It’s from another country, and it’s from my past,” he said, alleging the clips being shared date back as far as 2020 and 2024.
Harragin also sought to counter rumours that he is HIV-positive and “spreading HIV” in Guyana, claims he said exploded on social media after the scandal. During the interview, he displayed several HIV test results that he said were done in Guyana and showed a negative result, including one taken on February 2, the same day he said he was detained.
“If I’m spreading a virus, I have no virus to spread… I take a test, and all are negative,” he said. The results shown in the interview could not be independently verified.
Harragin told the interviewer he was aware of “two” reports made to police locally, but claimed those complaints were not about sex tapes recorded in Guyana.
Instead, he alleged that a non-explicit video he posted to his WhatsApp status of a woman he said he met at a party was removed from his status by someone else and later “mixed up” with old explicit videos from abroad, resulting in a Guyanese woman being wrongly accused.
“Apparently the final video looking like the individual and pin it to her… which is not true because me and the individual never had sex,” he said.
He also claimed the circulation of his private content began after a phone was stolen during a gathering in 2020, and worsened in 2024 after a breakup, when he alleged an ex-girlfriend accessed his iCloud account and leaked material from his gallery. He admitted he did not report that alleged iCloud breach to the police.
Pressed about the impact on women whose lives may have been harmed, Harragin apologised but again denied releasing the material himself.
“It wasn’t uploaded… it was not released from me,” he said. “I want to apologise… to the Guyanese people for all of this bacchanal and drama.”
Harragin further claimed police seized his phone, wallet, identification and passport, and said he does not know why some of those items remain held even after the reported DPP advice.
