Nigeria, April 4 -- The scheduled arraignment of top Binance officials at the Federal High Court in Abuja failed on Thursday after the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said it could not serve charges on the defendants.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) similarly failed to arraign them in a separate case before another judge of the court.

A lawyer to the Nigerian tax agency, FIRS, Moses Ideho, informed the judge, Emeka Nwite, that his client made efforts to serve the charges on Tigran Gambaryan, one of the two Binance executives charged in the case, but was denied access.

Mr Gambaryan is being held by the EFCC in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city.

Binance and its two officials - Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla...