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| Africa Live: Cryptocurrency boss escapes Nigerian custody - reports - BBC News | |
| (32 minutes later) | |
| Anne Soy & Nkechi Ogbonna | |
| BBC News, Nairobi & Lagos | |
| Cryptocurrency platform Binance has confirmed to the BBC that one of its executives who had been arrested by | |
| the authorities in Nigeria is no longer in custody, amid reports he escaped from the country. | |
| Nadeem | |
| Anjarwalla, who holds both British and Kenyan passports, was arrested last | |
| month together with a colleague, Tigran | |
| Gambaryan, as part of a tax evasion probe against Binance. | |
| A Binance | |
| spokesperson said on Monday: "We | |
| were made aware that Nadeem is no longer in Nigerian custody. | |
| "Our primary focus | |
| remains on the safety of our employees and we are working collaboratively with | |
| Nigerian authorities to quickly resolve this issue." | |
| Earlier, we reported that the authorities have now formally filed tax evasion charges against the firm and named Mr Anjarwalla among the defendants. | |
| Nigeria's authorities have been clamping down on | |
| cryptocurrency platforms over allegations they are being used for money laundering and | |
| financing terrorism. | |
| Mr Anjarwalla, who is Binance’s Africa Regional Manager, and Mr Gambaryan, a US citizen in charge of financial crime compliance at the firm, | |
| were arrested shortly after their arrival in Nigeria on 26 February. | |
| A court | |
| granted the Economic and | |
| Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) request to detain the two executives | |
| for 14 days, before extending the duration by another fortnight. | |
| Mr Anjarwalla and Mr Gambaryan were due to appear again | |
| in court on 4 April. However, in the last 24 hours, reports of Mr Anjarwalla's apparent escape began to emerge. | |
| Local media in | |
| Nigeria have reported that he asked the guards at a guest house he was being | |
| held in to allow him to attend a mosque last Friday, but he never returned. | |
| It was reported that Nigerian authorities had confiscated | |
| his British passport but the whereabouts of his Kenyan passport was unknown. | |
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