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Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent


After eight months, one of the US's most prominent crypto-crime investigators may finally be coming home.

For eight months, the criminal investigator who pioneered cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement technique has, in a bizarre twist of fate, been detained and then jailed in Nigeria facing charges of money laundering and tax evasion. He's since been held in the country's Kuje prison, where, according to his family and his attorneys, he's suffered acutely from a herniated disc in his spine that requires immediate surgery. Most recently, a group of state attorneys general similarly called on the White House to apply the necessary leverage to free Gambaryan.

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