Tigran Gambaryan is an American hero. He served his country as an IRS special agent for a decade, using his cutting-edge cyber skills to help bring down online criminal gangs. In private practice at Binance he continued to work with law enforcement and other crypto firms to track and report terrorists. Since February, he has been languishing in prison in Nigeria, where he arrived as an emissary for Binance, but then was snatched on spurious grounds by government officials.
The situation has been an ordeal for Gambaryan, who has contracted malaria and pneumonia, and for his wife and small children at home in Georgia. The outrageous situation has flown largely below the radar, but that began to change last week as U.S. lawmakers French Hill (R-Ark.) and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) visited Gambaryan in Nigeria's Kuje prison, which also houses members of the notorious Boko Haram terrorist group.
