The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen more than 300 accounts associated with illicit foreign exchange (FX) trading.
Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the EFCC, disclosed this on Tuesday, April 23, stating that the agency obtained a court order to freeze the accounts.
"We obtained an order to freeze those accounts. Imagine what would have happened if we didn’t seize those accounts," he remarked.
Olukoyede also noted that there are individuals in the country engaging in activities worse than what Binance, a cryptocurrency platform, is accused of.
He highlighted that over $15 billion passed through one crypto platform last year, which was not regulated by financial authorities.
The announcement follows the recent arrest of Nadeem Anjarwalla, the Binance regional manager for Africa, by Kenya's police service. Anjarwalla reportedly escaped from an Abuja guest house on March 22, where he and his colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, were being held by the federal government.
Anjarwalla and Gambaryan were detained on charges of tax evasion and money laundering by the federal government on February 28.
Earlier, on February 27, 2024, Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), revealed that $26 billion had passed through Binance Nigeria from unidentified sources in one year.
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