The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja has fastened November 27, 2025, for judgment on a compensation bid filed by ex-Binance Head of Monetary Crime Compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, towards Nigeria’s Workplace of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) over what his authorized crew describes as “extended detention” in Nigeria.
Justice Mohammed Umar fastened the judgment date after the authorized groups for each events adopted their processes, Nairametrics reliably gathered.
Nairametrics studies that the case, filed by Gambaryan, seeks the award of prices towards the NSA and EFCC over his alleged extended detention by safety operatives in reference to the Federal Authorities’s cash laundering and overseas trade contravention allegations towards Binance, a number one cryptocurrency platform.
Authorized Dispute
Nairametrics beforehand reported that on June 19, 2024, Gambaryan’s counsel, Tonye Krukrubo (SAN) and Sunday Agaji, knowledgeable the courtroom of their proposed amended originating movement for the enforcement of their consumer’s elementary rights within the go well with marked FHC/ABJ/CS/356/2024.
Gambaryan’s lawyer had requested Justice Inyang Ekwo to compel the NSA and the EFCC to apologize for his consumer’s detention within the nation.
In his preliminary elementary rights go well with, Gambaryan alleged that the Federal Authorities was utilizing his extended detention “as leverage to proceed making calls for on Binance.”
In his grounds of software, Krukrubo instructed the courtroom that his consumer, an American citizen, visited Nigeria on February 26, 2024, together with Nadeem Anjarwalla, solely to honor an invite by Mr. Saad Abubakar of the NSA and Mr. Olalekan Ogunjobi of the EFCC for a gathering with authorities officers as representatives of Binance.
He added that after honoring the invitation, his consumer — who shouldn’t be a board member of Binance — was detained.
The senior lawyer urged the courtroom to carry that:
“The illegal detention of the applicant (Gambaryan) by the respondents from February 26, 2024, to February 27, 2024 (interval of detention earlier than the remand order), and from March 12, 2024, to April 8, 2024 (interval of detention after the remand order expired till arraignment) has induced immense hardship and emotional stress to the applicant, his spouse, kids, and different members of his household.”
Nonetheless, the respondents countered Gambaryan’s submissions on June 21, 2024.
Within the EFCC’s movement dated July 2, 2024, and seen by Nairametrics on February 5, 2025, Olanrewaju Adeola drew the courtroom’s consideration to Go well with and Cost No. FHC/ABJ/CR/138/2024 within the case of Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Binance Holdings Ltd & Anor (the applicant on this go well with), filed on March 28, 2024, and at present pending earlier than Justice Emeka Nwite.
The case earlier than Justice Nwite entails allegations of cash laundering and overseas trade contraventions towards Binance.
Adeola emphasised the significance of contemplating the details introduced in Nwite’s proceedings to make sure a simply choice.
What Transpired in Courtroom
- On the resumption of proceedings on October 15, 2025, attorneys to each events adopted their processes and urged the courtroom to uphold their respective submissions.
- Nairametrics completely gathered that the decide subsequently adjourned the case to November 27, 2025, for judgment and/or ruling (in view of counter-applications by the federal authorities companies).
Backstory
In early 2024, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria accused the Binance cryptocurrency trade of influencing overseas trade (FX) charges, resulting in stricter regulatory and authorized scrutiny of crypto buying and selling platforms.
On February 28, 2024, Nigerian authorities detained two senior Binance executives: Nadeem Anjarwalla, a 37-year-old British-Kenyan who served because the Regional Supervisor for Africa, and Tigran Gambaryan, a 39-year-old American who was the Head of Monetary Crime Compliance at Binance on the time.
Nairametrics studies that each executives filed elementary rights fits towards Nigerian authorities companies, citing violations of their constitutional proper to liberty.
Anjarwalla’s case was later struck out for lack of diligent prosecution.
The duo was additionally charged by the EFCC and the Federal Inland Income Service (FIRS), alongside Binance, with tax evasion, overseas trade contravention, and cash laundering.
Anjarwalla later escaped from detention and fled Nigeria, whereas Gambaryan remained in custody primarily based on a courtroom order.
The FIRS and EFCC later amended their fees, naming Binance as the only real defendant.
Gambaryan was finally launched by the Nigerian authorities on well being grounds.
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