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Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan has opened up about his ordeal in Nigerian custody, News360 Nigeria reports.

In January 2024, Gambaryan was detained by law enforcement officials in the country.

In a long social media post, he claimed the experience involved shady dealings, international tensions, and the figure of Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.

According to Gambaryan, several lawmakers set up a meeting and demanded a $150 million bribe, which was to be paid in cryptocurrency into their personal wallets.

Gambaryan wrote: “The DSS was involved in the House of Representatives matter. We met with them at their office on Friday, January 5, 2024, as a prerequisite to our meeting with the House of Representatives. They alluded to the fact that we had to comply with whatever the House instructed us to do.

“At the House meeting, there were three present. Two of them were Peter Akpanke and Philip Agbese, both working under the leadership of Ginger Obinna Onwusibe. There was a third House member, but I don’t recall his name.

“They set up fake cameras and media to make the meeting appear official, but the cameras weren’t even plugged in. As you may already know, this ended with them asking for a $150 million bribe, paid in cryptocurrency into their personal wallets. A Mickey Mouse operation at its best.

“@NuhuRibadu invited us to the official meeting and worked through Sa’ad Abubakar. Another key figure in this situation was Hamma Adama Belloji. Ogunjobi was just a pawn; they used him too.

“This was sold as a friendly meeting with the NSA, the head of the SEC, and the CBN governor and included the discussion of the bribe that was solicited by the House of Representatives.

“The $26 billion figure they kept pushing publicly as some mystery money escaping Nigeria is complete BS. This information was provided in response to their request and was simply cumulative trade data for Nigerians on the platform. This money didn’t leave Nigeria — it was just people buying and selling crypto.

“For example, if you trade $100 a hundred times, that’s $10,000 in trade volume, but in reality, you only used $100. Again, just another example of them lying to cover up their BS investigation.

“They lied about Nadeem escaping during mosque prayers. In reality, he returned and escaped afterward. I don’t know exactly how he managed to flee. He emailed me in November, but we haven’t discussed the details of his escape. It’s possible he paid someone off, but I have no proof.

“If Belloji had simply checked his port for a visa, he would have realized that Nadeem did not use that port to travel to Nigeria.

“They sent a letter to the U.S. Embassy and the British High Commission, falsely claiming that we were voluntarily participating in strategic talks. This was a blatant lie.

“Nadeem did not escape lawful detention — we were being held illegally. Belloji even itted that he would fabricate evidence to obtain a court order to detain us for 14 days.

“Once the court order expired, they were unable to get an extension from the judge. At that point, they continued holding us illegally and had no justification for doing so.

“There was a lot of noise ing Interpol to capture Nadeem. As someone who has been involved in multiple extradition cases, I can confidently say this was a joke.
“Extradition is a lengthy legal process, and no rational judge in Kenya or wherever would ever approve extradition for someone who escaped illegal detention at the hands of rogue law enforcement — especially when that detention involved holding employees hostage to pressure their employer. All noise.

“They tried to use us to violate international privacy laws by demanding data on all Nigerians to target opposition allegedly ‘manipulating the price of the naira.’ However, they all knew that the naira’s devaluation was a direct result of Tinubu’s monetary policy, which depegged the naira from the dollar.

“I’m not saying this policy decision was wrong, but everyone understood that removing government intervention would lead to extreme devaluation. Instead of acknowledging this, they used Binance as a scapegoat.”

In October 2024, News360 Nigeria reported that the federal government had withdrawn the money laundering charges filed against Gambaryan.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had, in April 2024, arraigned Binance and Gambaryan over alleged money laundering.

This followed a clampdown on the cryptocurrency firm over alleged manipulation of the naira.

https://news360ng.com/breaking-binance-executive-reveals-names-of-nigerian-lawmakers-who-allegedly-demanded-150m-bribe-to-free-him/

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Wiping out or sending these criminals on exile is the only way out.

Hmmm

More revelations are coming, I suspect.

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This is a huge dent on the Nigerian image all around the world

I hope president trump slams visa ban on all the people involved in this disgrace and their principals behind the scene inclusive .

Very well.

All those lawmakers who demanded bribes should be aware of one thing:

If the lid is not blown, you may get away with it. But once the lid is blown open, you are scarred for life. Recall a shining star in Kano who ruined his political career by collecting bribes to cover up a subsidy probe? the senators who collected bribes from a former minister of education to pad his budget?

Always that ill-gotten money will finish. You either spend it completely, or you die and leave it behind. But a scarred name is eternal. Whenever your name is mentioned, it would be associated with graft.

As for this Binance guy, I have only one question for him: why didn't he expose these while he was in custody? Has he been healed of his leg pain then?

All of them are corrupt.

As for those asking how he could have exposed them: he had access to his lawyers, visitors and his Binance colleagues. It is not too hard to understand.

No surprises here.

Nigeria is a crime scene.

Even politicians are kidnapping and asking for Ransom

Nice one.

The criminals in charge of cooky jars. See how Ribadu is fantastically corrupt.

Not surprised....we have fantastically corrupt individuals as leaders of the nation

Nothing new, Nigeria is a criminal empire where slaves work for the slave lords.


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Nigerians ehn. If we don't kill corruption, it will ruin this nation beyond repair. It is well

I've been suspecting this for long. Even the allegation of escape made against Nadeem is just a ruse. Some people in authority have already been paid.

If the head is rotten then don't expect the body to work too

InfoGuru118:


https://news360ng.com/breaking-binance-executive-reveals-names-of-nigerian-lawmakers-who-allegedly-demanded-150m-bribe-to-free-him/

We know that already. It was an excuse to squeeze out the golden egg from binance

Interesting
But as usual this won't fly,
It would be his words against there's.

But very interesting!!

Okay.
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No surprises.

Corruption is part and parcel of Nigeria

zoo republic

you should never have come to Nigeria

There is no rule of law here

How can you expect to invest in such a zoo country?

US is fast becoming Nigeria, with little regard for Rule of Law Bribery and corruption

Peter Apkanke is a member from my constituency

I'm a ashame right now...

All criminals.

Their idiotic slaves were waiting for Binance to pay a $5bn fine after making false accusations against the crypto company.

They deployed their useless intellectuals and Fake Economists to run bad PR against Binance.

Imagine blaming a crypto currency for your shit currency and despite the ban on crypto, your currency did not improve.

The incompetent and corrupt T-pain istration put crypto in their campaign manifesto only to be the most hostile govt to crypto development even worse than Buhari.

A criminal enterprise calling themselves government

Nothing new after all.

The third lawmaker who demanded a bribe will be praying seriously for this guy not to his name

Chai !! Okoko biokoooo! Nigeria's leaders and corruption are fantastically corrupt.

E - Evidently
F - Fantastically
C - Corrupt
C - Country

OSHIOJANLE:
Peter Apkanke is a member from my constituency

I'm a ashame right now...

You get evidence?


That is how interesting the law his,

Make you kill person and no evidence is provided

You are a free man!!

If he mistakenly steps foot into Nigeria, he would be rearrested for spreading false news and cyber bullying

Nigeria is a joke.

Those fighting kemi badenoch should come out and tell us that this is a lie.

Corruption from the top and their gullible ers were shouting ignorantly about how binance is the problem of Nigeria and the naira.

Anyone who's suprised here should be deported to mars because they're most likely not a Nigerian. .

Disgraceful pipu

Artscollection:
Wiping out or sending these criminals on exile is the way out.

Not sure you read the news because the criminals are still the ones in Nigeria and in government