At first, Gambaryan and his colleague Nadeem Anjarwalla, Binance’s regional supervisor for Africa and a twin Kenyan-British nationwide, have been positioned underneath home arrest. However when Anjarwalla escaped underneath mysterious circumstances in March, Gambaryan was transferred to the notoriously harmful Kuje jail and charged with tax evasion and cash laundering – seemingly as a scapegoat for his employer, which Nigerian officers have accused, with out proof, of tanking the worth of the nationwide forex, the naira.