Gwamnatin Tarayya ta fara shari’ar aikata laifuka a kan Binance, fitaccen dandalin musayar cryptocurrency kan zargin kin biyan haraji.
Hukumar tara haraji ta kasa FIRS ce ta sanar da tuhume tuhumen da aka shigar a babbar kotun tarayya da ke Abuja ranar Litinin.
Shari’ar, wacce aka sanya a matsayin mai lamba FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, tana da nasaba da Binance tare da tuhumar kin biyan haraji.
FIRS, a wata sanarwa da ta fitar kuma ta mika wa DAILY POST a ranar ta hannun mai baiwa shugaban hukumar shawara ta musamman kan harkokin yada labarai, Dare Adekanmbi, ya ce sun dauki wannan mataki ne da nufin kiyaye kasafin kudi da kuma kare martabar tattalin arzikin Najeriya.
Wadanda suka hada da na crypto a matsayin wadanda ake tuhuma na biyu da na uku a cikin karar sun hada da Tigran Gambaryan da Nadeem Anjarwalla, dukkan su manyan jami’an Binance a halin yanzu a hannun hukumar yaki da masu yi wa tattalin arzikin kasa zagon kasa, EFCC.
Laifukan da ake tuhumar Binance sun haɗa da rashin biyan harajin, VAT, rashin shigar da bayanan haraji, da kuma haɗa kai wajen taimaka wa abokan ciniki su guje wa haraji ta hanyar dandalin sa.
A cikin karar, FG ta kuma zargi Binance da gaza yin rajista da FIRS don biyan haraji da kuma saba wa ka’idojin haraji da ake da su a cikin kasar.
A cewar sanarwar, daya daga cikin tuhume-tuhumen da aka yi a cikin karar ta shafi binance da ake zargin rashin karbawa da kuma mika nau’o’in haraji daban-daban ga tarayya kamar yadda sashe na 40 na dokar kafa FIRS ta 2007 kamar yadda aka gyara.
Sashi na 40 na dokar ya fito karara ya yi magana akan rashin cirewa da kuma rashin tura haraji, daftarin hukunci da yuwuwar ɗaurin kurkuku ga ƙungiyoyin da suka gaza.
Zarge-zargen sun kara dalla-dalla takamaiman lokuta inda Binance aka yi zargin ya keta dokokin haraji, kamar gazawar bayar da daftari don dalilai na VAT, don haka ya hana biyan haraji ta masu biyan kuɗi.
“Duk wani kamfani da ke yin cinikin sama da Naira miliyan 25 a duk shekara, dokar kudi ta ce yana nan a Najeriya.
“Bisa ga wannan doka, Binance ya fada cikin wannan rukunin. Don haka, dole ne ya biya haraji kamar Harajin Kuɗi na Kamfani, CIT da kuma tarawa da biyan Harajin, VAT.
“Amma Binance bai yi hakan da kyau ba. Don haka, kamfanin ya karya dokokin Najeriya kuma ana iya bincikarsa a kai shi kotu saboda wannan laifin,” in ji Adekanmbi.
