
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Thursday arraign Binance Holdings Limited and two of its senior executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who recently escaped from custody and fled Nigeria, over an alleged $35,400,000 money laundering case.
The EFCC had on Thursday, March 28, charged Binance Holdings Limited, Gambaryan, Anjarwalla with laundering $35,400,000.
The EFCC, which has now fully taken over the case from the Office of the National Security Adviser, has also detained Gambaryan and has obtained a court warrant to arrest and extradite Anjarwalla.
Confirming the development to our correspondent on Friday, impeccable sources in the anti-graft agency said that Anjarwalla would be arraigned in absentia alongside Binance and Gambaryan.
Another source revealed, “The EFCC is now partnering with the International Criminal Police Organisation, the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Kenyan government to effect the arrest and extradition of Mr Anjarwalla, the fugitive who fled from lawful custody in Nigeria.”
Following the takeover of the investigation into the financial irregularities allegedly committed by Binance, the EFCC has filed five counts bordering on money laundering against the cryptocurrency firm and two of its executives, Anjarwalla and Gambaryan, Sunday PUNCH can confirm.