The families of two executives from Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange have lamented their continued stay in detention after appearing in court and not been charged with any crime.
Ripples Nigeria reports that Tigran Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen and Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, and Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan who is Binance’s regional manager for Africa, flew to Nigeria following the country’s decision to ban several cryptocurrency trading websites and were detained on arrival on Feb. 26.
Following their continued detention their families have appealed to the Nigerian authorities to release them as the court order to hold Nadeem and Tigran expired on March 12th and a request for a new order which was filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not granted by the judge.
