According to ChainCatcher, according to Cointelegraph, Binance CEO Richard Teng said that his team has been working "day and night" to bring Tigran Gambaryan, an executive arrested in Nigeria, back to the United States because his health is deteriorating. "We have repeatedly called on the Nigerian government to release Tigran so that he can go home and get the proper treatment he needs."
“There is no need to detain our employee. He has been detained 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 the U.S. can designate Gambaryan as illegally detained to expedite the process. He added that Binance is also trying to appeal to the Nigerian government to release Tigran on humanitarian grounds.
He also said that since being held in Nigeria, Gambaryan has contracted malaria and pneumonia twice. His declining health even caused him to faint during a court appearance in May.
