The names of Binance employees detained in Nigeria have become known

The two Binance employees detained in Nigeria were the vice president of global intelligence and investigations of the exchange, Tigran Gambaryan, and the director of the trading platform in West and East Africa, Nadeem Anjarwalla. This is reported by Wall Street Journal.

Top managers were invited by the Nigerian authorities to discuss Binance's current problems. According to the publication, on February 25 they arrived in the capital of the country, Abuja.

After the first meeting, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla were taken to their hotels, told to pack their bags and taken to a “hotel” run by the Nigerian National Security Agency.

From that moment on, they are forcibly detained by the Nigerian authorities.

Earlier in the interview BBC Presidential spokesman Zachary Mijinyawa said that exchange employees were under investigation and “are being questioned as part of an investigation by security authorities into the regulation of the foreign exchange market.”

The media also reported that Binance top managers had their passports confiscated.

Let us remind you that the Nigerian authorities are concerned about the influence of cryptocurrency exchanges on the country’s economy. Telecommunications companies have been ordered by the government to block access to a number of platforms, including Binance, Coinbase and Kraken.

In early March, information emerged that Nigerian authorities allegedly demanded $10 billion in compensation from Binance for manipulating the naira exchange rate. However, subsequently both the exchange and adviser to the President of Nigeria Bayo Onanuga denied this information.

Also, the local House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes demanded that the CEO of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, Richard Teng, appear before the department to testify about the alleged financing of terrorism and money laundering.