US Lawmakers Visit Ailing Binance Executive in Nigerian Jail (1)

Two US lawmakers who visited a jailed <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1624796D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"00000190-3bd5-d497-a7fb-ffdd83420000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Binance Holdings Ltd. executive in Nigeria said he is in poor health and asked the American embassy to seek a humanitarian release even as local authorities press on with a fraud trial against him.

Representatives French Hill and Chrissy Houlahan said they used the opportunity of a national-security visit to the West African nation “to advocate for an American that has been wrongfully detained by the Nigerian government.”

Local authorities have held <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"00000190-3bd5-d497-a7fb-ffdd83470000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Tigran Gambaryan — the head of financial-crime compliance at Binance — since February on charges including illegal operations, currency manipulation ...