Binance CEO Richard Teng said his team has been working “around the clock” to bring Tigran Gambaryan, an executive arrested in Nigeria, back to the United States because of his deteriorating health. “We have called on the Nigerian government many times to release Tigran so that he can go home and get the proper treatment he needs.”
“There is no need to detain our employees. He is being held unjustly and unfairly,” Teng said at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore on September 19.
“This is painful for all of us,” he said, “especially for his family. For Binance, this is our top priority. We have a task force working around the clock internally to find different avenues from legal to political (to help Tigran return home).”
Teng hopes that the United States can designate Gambaryan’s detention as illegal to speed up the process. He added that Binance has also tried to call on the Nigerian government to release Tigran on humanitarian grounds.
He also said that Gambaryan has been infected with malaria and pneumonia twice since being held in Nigeria. His declining health even caused him to collapse during a court appearance in May. (Cointelegraph)