Posted 3/13/2024, 7:50:00 AM
Nigeria Detains Binance Executives, Seeks User Data Over Currency and Tax Issues
- Nigeria wants Binance to provide information on its top 100 users and 6 months of transaction history
- Nigeria has detained 2 Binance executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, for 3 weeks
- Nigeria sees Binance as undermining efforts to stabilize the naira currency, wants owed taxes resolved
- The executives are being held "as hostages" with no charges, but are supposedly being treated well
- Binance claims it is working with Nigeria to get its executives released and back home
