Tigran Gambaryan, an American citizen and Binance's head of financial crime compliance, attends a court hearing at the federal High Courts, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April 4, 2024.

Authorities have blamed Binance for contributing to Nigeria’s currency challenges and detained two Binance executives in 2024, following claims that the platform facilitated trading of the naira.

Nigeria’s blaming Binance for some of it, saying the platform became the go-to place for people trading naira when they couldn’t get their hands on U.S. dollars.

Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel cryptocurrency exchange Binance to pay $79.5 billion for economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2 billion in back ...

The Binance logo [Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters] Published On 25 Mar 2024 25 Mar 2024. An executive of cryptocurrency exchange Binance has escaped custody in Nigeria, ...

In Nigeria, an American man is caught up in a dispute between the government and the crypto currency exchange Binance. Some lawmakers say that Nigeria is effectively holding him hostage.

Binance and its executives have strongly pushed back against Nigeria’s allegations. Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, accused Nigerian lawmakers of demanding a $150m bribe to ...

Binance Holdings Ltd.’s head of financial crime compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, who was detained last year in Nigeria for about eight months, is leaving the world’s largest crypto exchange.

Tigran Gambaryan, a US citizen, was arrested on a business trip to Nigeria in February and later charged alongside his company Binance with laundering $35.4m (£28m) - which they denied.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel cryptocurrency exchange Binance to pay $79.5 billion for economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2 ...