Anti-Graft agency – the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday continued with its alleged money laundering charge preferred against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Ltd at a Federal High Court, Abuja The criminal charge continued before Justice Emeka Nwite inspite of the withdrawal of a charge by the Federa...
Binance has been hit with a fine of 188.2 million rupees ($2.25 million) by India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as the crypto exchange firm battles for its reputation in an ongoing court trial in Nigeria. In India, virtual digital asset service providers like crypto exchanges are required to be registered with the FIU as a […]
•House of Reps and Nadeem Anjarwalla The House of Representatives has denied demanding a bribe from the Binance Group following a recent allegation by the cryptocurrency company. This is as the House has also resolved to launch an investigation into the escape of the Binance Executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, from the National Security Adviser’s cu...
•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 ...

