A Federal High Court, Abuja yesterday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Dr Abraham Ehizojie, the Medical Doctor at the health facility of the Kuje Correctional Centre.

The warrant was issued over the alleged refusal to produce the medical report of Tigran Gambaryan, the detained executive of Binance Holdings Ltd. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an application by Gambaryan’s lawyer Mark Mordi (SAN).

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Gambaryan was whisked into Court 9 of the high rise building in a wheelchair earlier in the morning.

Gambaryan, alongside the cryptocurrency firm, is facing a money laundering charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Nwite on July 5 ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to release the medical certificate of Gambaryan on or before July 16 (today).

Mordi urged the court to summon Ehizojie to explain why he allegedly refused to make his client’s medical report available despite an earlier court order. Gambaryan on May 23 collapsed in the open court over alleged ill health.

The defence law firm, Aluko & Oyebode also on May 27 raised alarms that the cryptocurrency firm’s executive, might die in the correctional centre over his alleged deteriorating health.

Lawyer for the EFCC Ekene Iheanacho told the judge that he thought that the medical officer would be in court today. Mordi then requested a bench warrant against the medical officer of the correctional centre to be produced in court on the next adjourned date.

The lawyer also asked the court to make an order for his client to be given hospital remand immediately so that a thorough medical examination could be carried out on him to know his true state of health.