The Nigerian government has found fleeing Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla who escaped from custody in Nigeria in Kenya.
Following the development, it was gathered that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the International Criminal Police, the Nigeria Police Force and the Kenyan Police Service are currently working to hastily extradite Nadeem back to Nigeria.
DAILY GIST recalls that the Binance executive escaped from custody on March 22 and has been at large since then.
Nadeem whose cover has now been blown, went into hiding immediately after he landed in Kenya, The PUNCH reports
The presidency source said, “We have found him. We know where he is. He is in Kenya, and we’re working with the authorities to bring him back to Nigeria.”
The EFCC chairman, Ola Olukuyede, last month, in a statement, stressed that the commission is collaborating with INTERPOL, the US, UK, Northern Ireland and Kenyan authorities to extradite Anjarwalla, who has been on the run.
The commission 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.
EFCC arraigned Binance and the two executives on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Meanwhile, the government confirmed that EFCC had fully taken over the case of Binance from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA.
For months, the Nigerian government sustained its crackdown on Binance over its role in manipulating the country’s Foreign exchange market.
