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There was mild drama at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday as the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, was conspicuously absent for his trial.
Justice Emeka Nwite had, on Oct. 11, fixed today for the continuation of the trial in the alleged money laundering charge preferred against Binance Ltd and its country representative, Gambaryan, by the EFCC.
The development followed the rejection of Gambaryan’s second bail application by Justice Nwite.
However, NAN reports that when the matter was called on Friday, all the counsel to the parties in the case were in court except the second defendant, Gambaryan.
The judge then asked Gambaryan’s lawyer, Mark Mordi, SAN, about the whereabouts of his client.
Mordi said he did not know why his client was not in court. Also, the EFCC’s lawyer, Ekele Iheanacho, SAN, said he was surprised Gambaryan was not in court.
Iheanacho therefore sought a stand-down to enable them to inquire from the management of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on what went wrong.
Counsel to Binance, Tonye Krukrubo, SAN, equally expressed worry over the absence of Gambaryan in court.
He said the EFCC should be able to tell why he was not in court.
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