EFCC Freezes Over 300 Crypto Accounts After Binance Ban

Arrests, Bail Must Follow Rule Of Law – EFCC Boss Tells Operatives

THE Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the agency has frozen about 300 accounts to ensure the safety of the foreign exchange market.

Trojan News reports that the anti-graft agency boss disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking with journalists at the EFCC Headquarters.

Olukoyede said the Commission has discovered another worse scheme other than crypto trading platform Binance and its system.

According to him, the scheme popularly called the “P to P” peer- peer financial trading scheme has operated outside the official banking and financial corridors and there was a looming disaster that could further crashed the Naira value that has continued to gain.

“There are people in this country doing worse than Binance,” he said, adding that over $15 billion passed through one of the platforms in the last one year.