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.
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Mr Gambaryan is being held by the office of the National Security Adviser in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. He also prayed the court to allow Mr Gambaryan to confer with his lawyers to determine the mode of plea he would take. The charge was eventually served on Mr Gambaryan, prompting the judge to adjourn further hearing until 19 April for arraignment of the defendants.In the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024 dated and filed 22 March by the FIRS’ team of lawyers, led by Moses Ideho, the prosecution accused the defendants of committing the alleged offences on or about 1 February.
Count three accused them of offering services to subscribers on their trading platform in the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies and the remittance and transfer of those assets, and that having offered those services, was obliged to deduct VAT and did fail to deduct necessary VAT, arising from their operations.
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