EFCC set to arraign Binance top officials

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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) 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.