A political pressure body, Accountability Group, has faulted the embattled Binance Director, Tigran Gambrayan, for attempting to tarnish the image of Nigerian institutions after using diplomatic channels to secure freedom from detention.
A statement by the group’s Executive Director, Atoyebi Bamidele, said it was best to ignore Gambrayan.
“The best we can do is to ignore him because every single reply validated him as drawing comments from important people,” the group said.
The Binance executive was arrested and detained over sundry financial infractions and was released after the government dropped the charges against him.
Last week, Gambrayan made allegations against the National Security Adviser and the National Assembly members.
Integrity Group said: “It is axiomatic to the discerning that people whose social integrity stand on economic gains can do anything provided it lines their filthy pockets with lucre.
“It is also a truism that those caught with their hand in the till will always want to muddle up issues or bring the roof down on all since they see the game as being up and their future in jeopardy.
“We at Integrity Group note that before now, we have seen people of colours heist the Nigerian economy though in connivance with their ilk just as happened in PID and most recently, claims in dispute over some power projects…”
Dismissing the Binance executive’s claims, the group added: “Gambrayan is a perfect combination of negative ingeniousness and theatrics, a man who claimed he was at the edge of a grave and could not stand trial.
“He had to use parliamentarians to go on diplomatic level to secure his freedom but like the canary he is, he has taken flight and perched on a high branch to sing all manner of nonsense targeting Nigerian institutions.
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“That’s why the best we can do is to ignore him because every single reply validated him as drawing comments from important people.
“How many times did he faint or pretend not to be able to stand trial? Yet he is the one accusing everybody and alleging frivolities to set the Nigerian society against each other in a bid to conflagrate the country.
“When he was being taken through court to establish his culpability in flouting all financial regulations of the country, evading tax and all manner of his crooked operations, he daily manufactured his theatrics of fainting, appearing in crutches, sitting on wheelchairs or being stretchered into the courtroom to give the impression he was not fit and in a proper frame of mind and body to answer to the charges.
“The most annoying of his antics is the resort to diatribes after using diplomatic channels to secure what looks like plea bargaining with which in his usual alleyway, fled the country.
“Imagine that in one fell swoop, he took on our National Assembly and tried to tar the National Security Adviser, a man as clean as a pin even from his police years.
“More worrisome is that he appears to be working in cahoots with some out of favour politicians.
“The rightful place for the Gambrayans of this world should have been behind bars which locks are thrown into the ocean.
“He had prior to landing in Nigeria, ruined some state economies even in Africa.
“If possible, he should be brought back to face the laws of the land since our respect and application of international dicta were unmeritedly bestowed on a swine.”
