The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday brought a senior executive of Binance Holdings Limited Tigran Gambaryan to court.
Gambaryan was physically at the Federal High Court in Abuja but Nadeem Anjarwalla was absent as he recently escaped from custody and fled Nigeria.
The EFCC, which has now fully taken over the case from the office of the national security adviser, has obtained a court warrant to arrest and extradite Anjarwalla. The agency plans to arraign them for alleged $35,400,000 money laundering.
Also, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) arraigned Binance, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla for alleged tax evasion.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, Binance was accused of failing to register with the FIRS for the purpose of paying all relevant taxes administered by the service.
The FIRS also alleged that while it was offering taxable services to subscribers on its trading platform, the company failed to issue invoices to the subscribers for the purposes of determining and payment of its value added taxes.
The matter was adjourned till April 19 following the FIRS’ inability to serve Gambaryan the charges in EFCC custody.
