The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen over 300 accounts linked to illicit foreign exchange (FX) trading.
Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, Ola Olukoyede, EFCC’s chairman, stated the agency secured a court order to freeze the accounts.
“We bought an order to freeze these accounts think about what would have occurred if we didn’t seize these accounts,” he stated.
“There are people on this country doing worse than Binance,” he stated.
Olukoyede stated over $15 billion handed by one of many platforms within the last 12 months, which was not regulated by financial regulators.
The event comes a day after Kenya’s police service reportedly arrested Nadeem Anjarwalla, the Binance regional supervisor for Africa.
On March 22, Anjarwalla escaped from an Abuja guest home where he and Tigran Gambaryan, his colleague, had been stored by the federal government.
Anjarwalla was stated to have escaped after guards led him to a nearby mosque for prayers during the Ramadan fast.
Anjarwalla and Gambaryan had been charged with tax evasion and cash laundering by the federal authorities. The duo had been arrested and detained on February 28.
On February 27, 2024, Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN), stated $26 billion handed by Binance Nigeria from unidentified sources in a single 12 months.
Cardoso stated the apex financial institution was collaborating with totally different businesses, together with the EFCC, the police, and the workplace of the nationwide safety adviser (NSA) to sort out illicit monetary flows within the nation.
