The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on Thursday, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd on five counts charge of money laundering.
The Impact-General News Correspondent reliably gathered on Tuesday that Binance, Mr Gambaryan and Mr Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja.
Although the crypto exchange firm, Mr Gambaryan and Mr Anjarwalla are listed as first to third defendants respectively, Mr Anjarwalla, who is described to be “at large” by the EFCC in the counts, is expected to be arraigned in absentia.
In the charge dated and filed on March 28 by the anti-graft agency, the defendants are being accused of money laundering to the tune of $35,400,000.
Count one accused the defendants between January 2023 and January 2024 in Abuja of carrying on specialised business of other financial institution without valid licence.
The offence is said to be contrary to Section 57(1) and (2) of the Banks and Other Financial, Institutions Act, 2020 and punishable under Section 57(5) of the same Act.
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