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.

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.

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 ...

Nigeria's markets regulator has ordered the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a ...

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, ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) of Nigeria has filed suit against Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, concerning alleged economic losses and tax evasion. The Nigerian government ...

While several Binance users in Nigeria reported difficulties accessing the site in the early hours of Thursday, it appears that the directive to restrict access has been temporarily halted, as ...

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 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.

Whether Binance has contributed to Nigeria’s worsening economic picture is certainly up for debate, though, to the extent that authorities in the country are detaining mid-level executives, it ...

Tigran Gambaryan, a compliance officer at crypto giant Binance, has been detained in Nigeria since February on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. In March, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao ...

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.