How Binance Executive, Anjarwalla Escaped Police Custody –Ex-DSS Boss

A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) Dennis Amachree, has stated how Binance executive Nadeem Anjarwalla escaped police custody.

According to him, the man made good his escape by robbing the palms of some security agents.

Amachree stated this while fielding questions with leading private television station, Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.

The Eagle reports that Anjarwalla, an executive of .Binance, who alongside his colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, had been in detention in Nigeria upon arriving on February 26, escaped detention yesterday, causing stir in many quarters.

Reacting to this, Amachree said: “Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla has rubbed hands with some security agents who facilitated his escape. I am happy they have arrested some of them, they should tell us exactly what happened.”

Aside that, he was of the suggestion that the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) may have erred in the choice of where to detain the man.

The appropriate place for the man, should have the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or the secret police for custody.

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He added that Anjarwalla and Gambaryan should have been placed on watchlist with the Nigeria

“I don’t know whether the NSA has a detention facility. The NSA is an advisory body to the President. So, if he (NSA Nuhu Ribadu) felt that the suspects should be remanded, he should have sent him to the EFCC or the DSS to keep until the date of the court but to keep him in a guest house where he has access to telephone?

“For them now to allow him to go and pray? I think there are a lot of loopholes and lapses there. We have held heads of state in detention.

“So, I don’t see why this particular guy will be allowed to go to the nearest mosque to pray and disappeared. There is a compromise,” he said.

According to him, preliminary investigation showed the Binance executive escaped using a smuggled passport,” it said.

“The personnel responsible for the custody of the suspect have been arrested, and a thorough investigation is ongoing to unravel the circumstances that led to his escape from lawful detention”, Amachree stated.