Gambaryan’s lawyer told court the Binance exec is suffering ill-health in prison.
Collapse delays $35 million money laundering trial until next month.
Binance’s Nigerian crisis is worseing as tax evastion case moves forward.
On the second day of Tigran Gambaryan’s money laundering trial in Nigeria, the jailed Binance executive was called to the dock.
He immediately fainted.
Supported by one of his lawyers, Gambaryan was helped to a chair to recover.
The head of Binance’s financial crime compliance unit looked gaunt and stressed, proceedings in the Abuja court.
Gambaryan’s lead attorney, Mark Mordi, attributed his client’s collapse to his worsening health as he completes his eighth week of incarceration in the African nation’s prison system.
Mordi presented the court with a doctor’s note, but did not disclose details of Gambaryan’s condition.
Mordi asked the court for an adjournment to allow his client to receive medical attention, and Justice Emeka Nwite agreed.
He fixed June 20 and 21 for the resumption of the trial.