In a recent turn of events, despite Binance’s decision to withdraw its operations from Nigeria, two high-ranking officials from the cryptocurrency exchange remain detained in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Tigran Gambaryan, the head of Binance’s criminal investigations team, and Nadeem Anjarwalla, the regional manager for Africa based in Kenya, have been held without their passports for two weeks, as of March 12, according to a report by Wired. The detention of Gambaryan, a former U.S. federal agent with a focus on cryptocurrency, and Anjarwalla began on February 26, 2024. Despite the lack of clarity on the presence of criminal charges, the