{"id":1548,"date":"2024-10-23T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2024-10-23T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:21:57","slug":"nigeria-drops-money-laundering-charges-against-binance-executive-amid-diplomatic-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Drops Money Laundering Charges Against Binance Executive Amid Diplomatic Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigerian government has officially withdrawn all money laundering charges against Binance executive <strong>Tigran Gambaryan<\/strong>, who had been held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/09\/40715672\/nigerian-court-postpones-bail-hearing-for-binance-compliance-head-as-health-deteriorates\">detention since April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The decision was revealed by a lawyer representing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) during a Federal High Court hearing in Abuja on Wednesday, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-10-23\/nigerian-court-releases-binance-executive-jailed-since-february?embedded-checkout=true\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gambaryan, detained in February alongside his colleague Nadeem Anjarwalla during a visit to Nigeria, remained in custody at Kuje Correctional Center even after Anjarwalla escaped. <\/p>\n<p>The charges against both executives included allegations of money laundering and tax evasion. <\/p>\n<p>However, they were cleared of the tax evasion charges in June, leaving the money laundering accusations to be addressed until this week&#8217;s resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The case drew significant diplomatic &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41487927\/nigeria-drops-money-laundering-charges-against-binance-executive-amid-diplomatic-pressure\" alt=\"Nigeria\" drops money laundering charges against binance executive amid diplomatic pressure>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has officially withdrawn all money laundering charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, who had been held in detention since April. What Happened: The decision was revealed by a lawyer representing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) during a Federal High Court hearing in Abuja on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. Gambaryan, detained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}