Binance CEO Richard Teng stated that his team has been working "around the clock" to bring Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive arrested in Nigeria, back to the United States as his health deteriorates. "We have repeatedly called on the Nigerian government to release Tigran so he can return home and receive the proper medical care he needs." "There is no reason to detain our employee. He is being unjustly and unfairly detained," Teng said at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore on September 19th. "This has been a painful experience for all of us," he said, "especially for his family. This is our top priority for Binance. We have a team internally working day and night to explore different avenues, from legal to political, (to help Tigran return)." Teng hopes the United States will declare Gambaryan's detention unlawful to expedite the process. He added that Binance is also trying to appeal to the Nigerian government to release Tigran on humanitarian grounds. He also stated that Gambaryan has contracted malaria and pneumonia twice since his imprisonment in Nigeria. His declining health even caused him to collapse during a court appearance in May. (Cointelegraph)