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Nigeria’s Anti-Graft Agency Set to Arraign Binance Executives

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will prosecute Binance Holdings Ltd and two top executives today Thursday, 4th April 2024. According to a report by local media house Premium Times, the duo faces a five-count charge of money laundering and will be in court to face Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court (FHC) in the country’s capital city of Abuja.

Although the EFCC lists Binance, Tigran Gambaryan, and Nadeem Anjarwalla as the three defendants in the case, it might be worth noting that Anjarwalla’s whereabouts are not known at the moment. As Coinspeaker earlier reported, Anjarwalla slipped through the cracks of lawful custody on March 22 and has remained at large ever since. Nonetheless, the law permits that he be arraigned in absentia. That is without being physically present....