{"id":72416,"date":"2021-08-18T05:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=72416"},"modified":"2021-08-18T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:58:09","slug":"cbn-secures-order-freezing-risevest-bamboo-accounts-over-illegal-fx-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/18\/cbn-secures-order-freezing-risevest-bamboo-accounts-over-illegal-fx-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"CBN secures order freezing Risevest, Bamboo accounts over \u2018illegal FX transactions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The request of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to freeze accounts of fintech companies for 180 days has been granted by a federal high court in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The accounts include that Rise Vest Technologies Limited, Bamboo Systems Technology Limited, Bamboo Systems Technology Limited OPNS, Chaka Technologies Limited, CTL\/Business Expenses, and Trove Technologies Limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The apex bank via a court paper seen on Tuesday said\u00a0it is investigating \u2018illegal foreign exchange transactions\u2019 by the fintech companies.<\/p>\n<p>It also sought the court injunction to freeze their bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/13\/dokpesi-calls-on-court-to-unfreeze-his-accounts-after-appeal-courts-acquittal\/\">accounts<\/a> for 180 days pending the completion of investigations.<\/p>\n<p>In the motion ex parte marked FCH\/ABJ\/CS\/822\/2021 and filed on August 4, CBN through its counsel Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, submitted that \u201cthe investigation being carried out concerns what has been discovered to be serious infractions by the defendants\/respondents in connection with some foreign exchange transactions, and non-documentation by the defendants\/respondents in violation of the extant laws and regulations, particularly the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act and the Central Bank of Nigeria foreign exchange manual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat more specifically, there is a grave allegation that the defendants\/respondents are engaged in illegal foreign exchange transactions, accessing\/procuring of foreign exchange via their banks from the Nigerian foreign exchange market via several bureaux de change, international money transfer operators and have transferred cash deposit of more than S10,000.00 (Ten thousand dollars) to various accounts overseas contrary to provisions of extant laws and regulations and also traded in foreign securities and cryptocurrencies in contravention to CBN Circular referenced TED\/FEM\/FPC\/GEN\/01\/012 and BSD\/DIR\/PUB\/LAB\/014\/001 dated February 5, 2021, and July 01, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is evident that Rise Vest Technologies Limited, Bamboo Systems Technology Limited, Chaka Technologies Limited and Trove Technologies Limited are complicit in operating without license as asset management companies and utilising FX sourced from the Nigerian FX market for purchasing foreign bonds\/shares in contravention of CBN\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his judgement, Ahmed Mohammed\u00a0said: \u201chaving listened to senior counsel to the applicant, on the motion ex parte filed in August, it is granted as prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that any person who feels aggrieved about the freezing order is entitled to approach the court within the period to seek redress.<\/p>\n<p>He then adjourned the matter to February 20, 2022, for hearing.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warned the investing public on the proliferation of unregistered online investment<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and trading platforms, facilitating access to trading in securities listed in foreign markets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The request of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to freeze accounts of fintech companies for 180 days has been granted by a federal high court in Abuja. 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