Golden Finance reported that Binance CEO Richard Teng has remained silent about the legal crisis in Nigeria in the past few months, but today he issued a statement regarding the charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan in Nigeria, saying that unidentified persons had contacted the exchange's employees and suggested paying a sum of money to resolve the charges. According to DLNews, Nigerian officials asked Binance for a cryptocurrency bribe of up to $150 million. Richard Teng said in a statement that the lawyers were asked to secretly pay a large sum of money in cryptocurrency within 48 hours.