by Ola Kay
The Federal Government of Nigeria, FHN stated that fleeing Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped custody in Nigeria, has been located in Kenya, according to a source in the presidency.
The source who preferred not to be mentioned confirmed the development and informed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the International Criminal Police, the Nigeria Police Force, including the Kenyan Police Service are in joint collaboration to ensure the Binance boss extradition to the country.
According to the Daily Post, the source declared emphatically that, “We know where he is. He is in Kenya, and we’re working with the authorities to bring him back to Nigeria.”
Recall that, the EFCC had instituted five-count charges bordering on tax evasion, currency speculation and money laundering against Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, the firm’s executives.
The EFCC boss, Ola Olukuyede, in a statement in March had stated that the anti-graft body was collaborating with INTERPOL, the US, UK, Northern Ireland and Kenyan authorities to extradite Anjarwalla, who made an illegal escape from Nigeria. Anjarwalla escaped from custody on March 22 and has since been at large .
EFCC arraigned Binance and the two executives on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
But, the Nigerian government has said that the EFCC had fully taken over the case of Binance from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA.
Recall that, in February, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, had said ay the 293rd meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, that more than $26 billion had been siphoned through Binance.
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