A former IRS special agent and Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, Tigran Gambaryan had been in Nigerian custody with reports of deteriorating health since February.
United States President Joe Biden spoke to President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, offering his appreciation that Binance’s head of financial crime compliance had been released on humanitarian grounds.
According to an Oct. 29 notice from the White House, President Biden had a call with President Tinubu in which he thanked the Nigerian leader for helping secure “the release on humanitarian grounds of American citizen and former US law enforcement official Tigran Gambaryan.”
The Binance executive had been in Nigeria custody for roughly eight months until being allowed to leave the country on Oct. 23.