The Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled the arraignment of Binance Holdings Limited and two of its officials – Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla – for tomorrow.
The firm, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22, will be arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite on two separate charges.
The one filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), bordering money laundering, has five counts.
The other, by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has four counts, in which they were accused of sundry tax infractions.
In the charge by the EFCC, filed on March 28, the defendants are accused, among others, of laundering about $35,400,000.
In count one of the charges, the defendants are alleged to have, between January 2023 and January 2024 in Abuja, carried out the specialized business of other financial institutions without a valid licence.
