Initially, Ghanbarian and his colleague Nadeem Anjawala, Binance's Africa Manager and dual Kenyan-British citizen, were placed under house arrest. But after Anjawala escaped prison under mysterious circumstances in March, Ghanbarian was transferred to the notoriously dangerous Kuje Prison and charged with tax evasion and money laundering. Nigerian authorities have accused, without evidence, Ghanbarian's employer of causing a collapse in the value of the country's currency, the naira, and Ghanbarian appears to have been made a scapegoat for his employer.
