{"id":191458,"date":"2025-02-15T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-binance-official-names-nigerian-lawmakers-who-allegedly-demanded-150-million-bribe\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T02:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:48:22","slug":"nigeria-binance-official-names-nigerian-lawmakers-who-allegedly-demanded-150-million-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-binance-official-names-nigerian-lawmakers-who-allegedly-demanded-150-million-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Binance Official Names Nigerian Lawmakers Who Allegedly Demanded $150 Million Bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>In his post, Mr Gambaryan provided details of the bribe demand, including the date it occurred and the conditions under which it was demanded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Tigran Gambaryan, the head of financial crime of crypto firm <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en-NG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binance<\/a><\/strong>, who was detained in Nigeria for several months, has named three Nigerian lawmakers who he claimed demanded a $150 million bribe from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Gambaryan and another Binance official were detained by the Nigerian government which accused their firm of money&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140348.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his post, Mr Gambaryan provided details of the bribe demand, including the date it occurred and the conditions under which it was demanded. Tigran Gambaryan, the head of financial crime of crypto firm Binance, who was detained in Nigeria for several months, has named three Nigerian lawmakers who he claimed demanded a $150 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5128,40755,13133,22384,14377,5118,8650,257,4687,393,482,5092,254],"class_list":["post-191458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-binance","tag-bribe","tag-demanded","tag-lawmakers","tag-million","tag-names","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}