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Nigeria Invited, Then Detained Binance’s Compliance Head and Africa Manager for Two Weeks: Reports

Summary

Two Binance executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been detained by Nigerian authorities for two weeks due to accusations against the crypto exchange. Nigeria demanded $10 billion from Binance for processing $26 billion of untraceable funds. The detained executives are being supported by the company and visited by U.S. and U.K. government officials. Nigeria's President's office has not commented on the situation.