The Nigerian government says the Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped custody in Nigeria, has been found in Kenya.
Reports say the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the International Criminal Police, the Nigeria Police Force, and the Kenyan Police Service are already in talks to quicken Anjarwalla’s extradition.
The EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede in a statement last month 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.
Recall that Anjarwalla escaped from custody on March 22 and has been at large since then.
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.
