•Tinubu Binance has alleged that Nigeria demanded a secret payment of N20 billion to settle its crypto case. According to Bloomberg, Binance Chief Executive Officer, Richard Teng made the claim in a blog yesterday, detailing how the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange tried to engage with Nigerian authorities, including having a meeting wh...
•Binance Founder, Changpeng Zhao The founder of cryptocurrency firm, Binance, was sentenced to four months in US prison yesterday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest cryptocurrency ex...
•Tigran Gambaryan in court with EFCC operative The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, today, remanded a top official of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison. Trial Justice Emeka Nwite remanded the defendant after he pleaded not guilty to a money laundering charge that was preferred against him by the Economic and Financ...
•Binance’s Tigran Gambaryan in court with an EFCC operative A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the tax evasion case involving Binance Holdings Limited and its executives. The Federal Inland Revenue Service had dragged the firm to court for tax evasion, reports The PUNCH. Also joined in the suit are officials of the company, [&he...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, today, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd on five counts of money laundering charge. It was reliably gathered yesterday that Binance, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be ar...
•Nadeem Anjarwalla The Economy and Financial Crimes Commission has charged Binance Holdings Limited and two of its senior executives, Tigran Gambaryan, and Nadeem Anjarwalla – who is on the run, with $35,400,000 money laundering. EFCC, which has now fully taken over the case from the Office of the National Security Adviser, has also detained G...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Binance Holdings Limited to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with comprehensive information on all persons from Nigeria trading on its platform. The court handed down the order in an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC demanding information about Nigerians trading on Binance, reports ...
A Lagos-based crypto tech enthusiast, Bright Johnson has carpeted the federal government over the detention of two Binance officials, saying the action is not only counterproductive but could eventually undermine the government’s efforts to bring about economic change and growth. According to Johnson, the Nigerian authorities seem to be lashin...
•CBN Governor Cardoso Nigerians have continued to react differently following the announcement by Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency trading platform, to exit the Nigerian market. Binance had announced yesterday to discontinue the Naira-associated services on its platform effective from March 8 amidst regulations from the Nigerian ape...
The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes has resolved to issue warrant of arrest against executives of cryptocurrency platform, Binance, for failing to appear before it for an investigation. Chairman of the Committee, Ginger Onwusibe, yesterday, stated that the warrant of arrest is to compel that the executives appear before ...
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