The United States government is pressuring Nigeria to release a former executive of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance. As ReadWrite reported at the time, Nigeria detained two Binance executive back in March. The two executives are Binance’s criminal investigations team Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla the regional manager for Africa based in Kenya. A coordinated pressure campaign The detention of former United States law enforcement officer Gambaryan has caused significant strain in the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.