"Missing semicolon" error raised when mocking a class in Jest using Typescript

I'm using Typescript and trying to test my code with Jest, and I made a type casting on a class so I can mock it.

Unfortunately, when I ran the test suite I got the following error:

 SyntaxError: C:\Projects\sim_editor\server\src\tests\routes.test.ts: Missing semicolon (7:37)

Here is my code:

describe('Unit test api routes', () => {
    jest.mock('../controllers')
    const mkControllers = Controllers as jest.MockedClass<typeof Controllers>

    beforeEach(() => {
        mkControllers.mockClear()
    })

    .
    .
    .
    The rest of my test suite
 })

The error was referring the line where I declared "mkControllers".

Here is a deeper log of the error:

at Parser._raise (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:97:45)
  at Parser.raiseWithData (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:92:17)
  at Parser.raise (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/error.js:41:17)
  at Parser.semicolon (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/util.js:131:10)
  at Parser.parseVarStatement (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:707:10)
  at Parser.parseStatementContent (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:223:21)
  at Parser.parseStatement (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:163:17)
  at Parser.parseBlockOrModuleBlockBody (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:880:25)
  at Parser.parseBlockBody (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:856:10)
  at Parser.parseBlock (node_modules/@babel/parser/src/parser/statement.js:826:10)

Thanks.