Nigeria: Updated – EFCC, FIRS Fail to Arraign Binance Officials in Tax Evasion, Money Laundering Cases

Binance and its two officials – Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla – were scheduled to be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on five counts of money laundering and tax evasion on Thursday.

The scheduled arraignment of top Binance officials at the Federal High Court in Abuja failed on Thursday after the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said it could not serve charges on the defendants.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) similarly failed to arraign them in a…