Drama ensued at the Federal High Court in Abuja as the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, collapses in court on Thursday.
When the court registrar called on the defendant to continue the trial, he stayed sitting in the back seat of the reopened trial and did not come down to the dock.
When the defendant refused to step onto the dock, Justice Emeka Nwite, the trial judge, inquired about him.
As they proceeded slowly to the dock, one of the defence team’s attorneys, who was seated next to Gambaryan, supported him by the side, holding his hand.
However, as they approached the dock, Gambaryan sagged, so the attorney helped him settle into the first row seat.
However, Mark Mordi, the defendant’s attorney, informed the court that his client had been declared indisposed and that a formal application letter had been sent to inform the court.
At the last sitting, Justice Nwite had dismissed Gambaryan’s bail application on the ground that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had been able to establish that he posed a flight risk in the same manner as Nadeem Anjarwalla.
Gambaryan, Anjarwalla, and Binance Holdings Limited are facing money laundering and terrorism financing charges, brought against them by the EFCC.
