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Nairobi Freezes Binance Accounts in Sweeping Anti-Fraud Crackdown as Global Scandal Record Haunts World’s Largest Crypto Exchange
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations has locked an undisclosed number of Binance user accounts without court orders, citing terrorism financing and corrupt money flows. The move exposes Binance’s deepening governance crisis across Africa and beyond, from a $4.3 billion guilty plea in Washington to an $81.5 billion lawsuit in Lagos, and places thousands of ordinary Kenyan traders in an indefinite legal limbo.