Joseph Bakare
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dismissed a news report in a leading national newspaper entitled: “EFCC Stopped Service of Charges on Binance Chief, FIRS Alleges”, describing the report as untrue, misleading and removed from the facts before the Court.
The EFCC argues that at no time did the Court bailiff approach the Agency to serve any of the Binance executives in its custody with a charge. At the last sitting of the Court, counsel to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Moses Ideh, did not lodge such a complaint before the Court.
He only told the Court that the Service was yet to serve the defendants.
The Commission, therefore, finds the news item preposterous and embarrassing and enjoined the public to ignore it entirely.