Binance Executive’s Health Deteriorates in Jail as Nigeria Money-Laundering Trial Proceeds
On Tuesday the cross-examination of the first witness from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission was completed.
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On Tuesday the cross-examination of the first witness from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission was completed.
A group of 108 former federal prosecutors and agents have signed a public letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to “step up” its efforts to secure Binance compliance head Tigran Gambaryan’s release from a Nigerian prison, Axios reported Thursday evening.
Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of crime compliance, is one of two executives arrest in Nigeria earlier this year. (Shutterstock/Consensus)
Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s compliance head, who remains jailed in Nigeria, is suspected of having Malaria, a family spokesperson told CoinDesk.
The Nigerian court also ruled that the Binance exchange can be served the FIRS tax evasion charges through its executive Tigran Gambaryan.
Binance is “working as collaboratively as we can” with the Nigerian government to secure the release of its jailed financial crimes investigations chief, Tigran Gambaryan, the exchange’s chief compliance officer Noah Perlman said Wednesday.
Two senior executives of Binance, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held against their will for the past two weeks by Nigerian authorities.