Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (firs) is pursuing Binance $ 79.5 billion in economic losses as well as $ 2 billion with interest in back taxes, the exchange of its blog said.
It is a leap from the initial $ 10 billion figure that the Nigerian government sought to say the exchange enables $ 26 billion unreliable funds to leave the country like this faced with a foreign exchange crisis and seeking to tighten the capital streams Last year.
“The firs argue that Binance has a significant economy in Nigeria but its tax obligations have not been fulfilled,” Binance said in a blog post on Thursday. “The agency emphasized that manipulation of the Binance platform contributed to the rapid reduction of Naira, which faces harassment pressure.”
Nigeria has been pursuing the trial against Binance since early last year. The country has stopped two of its executives Picture of the Pigran and Fiel In February. The country charges executives with the exchange of money -avoided and tax -loss charges but eventually released Photo Then Anjarwalla, flee. Binance is still facing money laundering charges from the country.
CoinDesk reached Biniger and Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service for a comment.
