Binance Executive’s Health Deteriorates in Jail as Nigeria Money-Laundering Trial Proceeds On Tuesday the cross-examination of the first witness from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission was completed.

U.S. Judge Lets Most of SEC Case Against Binance Proceed, Dismisses Secondary Sales Charge A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.

U.S. Lawmakers Visit Detained Binance Exec in Nigeria, Call for Release The two House members said Tigran Gambaryan is being wrongfully detained and should be freed.

Binance Fined $2.2M by India’s Financial Intelligence Unit Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been fined approximately $2.2 million (18.82 crore INR) for providing services to Indian clients without adhering to the nation’s anti-money laundering rules, India’s anti-money laundering unit announced Thursday.

Nigeria Drops Tax Charges Against Binance Executives The executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, are still named in a money-laundering case.

Binance Resumes Mastercard Payments for Crypto As well as Mastercard payments, the Binance-branded Visa card, which was also switched off last year, has restarted functionality on the exchange.

Binance Asks UK Competition Tribunal to Throw Out Most of Collusion Case: Reuters The case relates to the delisting of the BSV token in 2019.

Former Binance CEO CZ Begins 4-Month Prison Sentence in California Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has reported to a federal prison in California where he will spend the next four months for failing to implement an adequate know-your-customer (KYC) program at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Binance’s ex-CEO begins prison sentence in California Binance’s billionaire founder Changpeng Zhao has reported to a low-security federal prison in Lompoc, California.

The U.S. Response to Binance Exec Tigran Gambaryan’s Detention Is Shameful

Binance Executive Jailed in Nigeria is Suspected of Having Malaria, Family Says Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s compliance head, who remains jailed in Nigeria, is suspected of having Malaria, a family spokesperson told CoinDesk.

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Binance Exec Who Escaped From Nigeria Has Been Found in Kenya, Faces Extradition: Reports Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped Nigerian custody in March, could be extradited back to the country within the week, one local media outlet reported citing government sources.

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Binance Secures Full Virtual-Asset Services Provider License in Dubai The fourth and final stage of approval comes almost a year after the crypto exchange secured a third-stage license.

Binance.US Taps Former New York Fed Compliance Chief for Board Role Binance.US added Martin Grant, a one-time New York Federal Reserve Bank official who spent 17 years as its chief compliance and ethics officer, to its board of directors.

Binance ‘Working Collaboratively’ With Nigerian Government to Free Detained Executive, Compliance Chief Says Binance is “working as collaboratively as we can” with the Nigerian government to secure the release of its jailed financial crimes investigations chief, Tigran Gambaryan, the exchange’s chief compliance officer Noah Perlman said Wednesday.

Binance has matured past cultural issues, CEO says, after $4.3 billion U.S. DOJ settlement Binance’s new CEO Richard Teng said the company has moved past cultural issues after the company was hit with a $4.3 billion fine to settle charges from the U.S. Justice Department.

Detained Binance Exec Pleads Not Guilty to Money Laundering Charges in Nigeria: Reports Tigran Gambaryan was remanded pending trial, reports say.

Binance Stops Support for Bitcoin NFTs Citing ‘Streamlining’ of Offered Products Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will cease support for bitcoin-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as it undergoes a process to “streamline” its product offerings.