Binance CEO Richard Teng is demanding that Nigerian authorities release Tigran Gambaryan, a director of the exchange who has been jailed for seven months.
Gambaryan, head of the cryptocurrency exchange’s Financial Crime Compliance team, was first arrested by Nigerian police in February and charged with helping Binance tax evasion and money laundering.
Gambaryan was arrested along with another director, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who managed to flee the country to avoid detention.
Video footage has now emerged showing Gambaryan, in pain and unable to walk, limping through a Nigerian court as guards apparently refuse to help him or allow him a wheelchair.
In the video, Gambaryan claims that the officer he was with said the government had told him not to take care of him.
“This is damned! He was told not to help me, he said there were instructions from the government. This is damned. Why can’t I use a wheelchair? This is a show. I’m fucking an innocent person and you’re doing this to me. I can’t walk. My spine is [broken]…I’m not okay!
Commenting on the video, Teng says:
“This inhumane treatment of Tigran must end. He should be able to go home for medical treatment and be with his family.”
Mark Mordi, a lawyer for Gambaryan, told the court that his client had applied for bail “because his health continued to deteriorate during his captivity,” Reuters reports.
Gambaryan has a hernia and is suffering from bouts of malaria and pneumonia. However, lawyers from Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission say Gambaryan is not in poor health and suffered from a hernia before prison.
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