Crypto
Wife pleads for Briton held in Nigeria over cryptocurrency dealings
Nadeem Anjarwalla took only overnight luggage when he flew to Nigeria late last month, leaving his wife and 11-month-old son at home. The British citizen, who works for the world’s biggest digital currencies exchange, was planning to return home after a day of business meetings.
Three weeks later, he is still there and his family is growing concerned. Anjarwalla, 37, and an American colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, 39, are under detention in a guarded house. They have not been charged with any crimes. But the Nigerian government accuses their company, Binance, of sending Africa’s biggest economy into a tailspin.
“We’re waiting with bated breath to see what will happen,” Elahe, 34, Anjarwalla’s wife, said at their home in Nairobi, Kenya. “I’m no expert on the Nigerian