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Catherine McGrath

INSANE: Binance exec released from nigerian prison after 8 month detention - The Real Truth

Photo of a woman, a child, and a man in a snowy landscape (Credit: Yuki Gambaryan)

After pleading for medical attention for months, Binance employee and former U.S. Special Agent Tigran Gambaryan has finally been granted freedom by the Nigerian government. On Wednesday, a court in Nigeria ordered Gambaryan to be released from prison after the government dropped money laundering charges against him. 

Gambaryan has been wrongfully detained in Nigeria since February when the country decided to take aim at crypto giant Binance and seized the company’s head of financial crime compliance in an apparent bid for political leverage

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