Nigeria announces charges against Binance after executive flees

Nigeria has filed charges of tax evasion against Binance and two executives of the cryptocurrency platform it has detained, amid a report that one of the men has fled the country.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service accused Binance of non-payment of value-added-tax and company income tax, failure to file tax returns and complicity in aiding customers to evade taxes through its platform, it said in an emailed statement Monday.
Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who have been detained in the West African country since February, were named as defendants in the case…