Wired releases Binance’s Tigran Gambaryan texts from Nigerian prison

Wired’s article revealed text messages sent by the executive of Binance Tigran Gambaryan from Nigerian prison during his 8 -month detention.

Through SMS sent from a penitentiary establishment in Kuje, NigeriaGambaryan described his condition to journalist Andy Greenberg. He said he was “essentially paralyzed” after his health has worsened.

THE Binance The Exec was increasingly low due to the horrible circumstances he was confronted with in prison, because he suffered from a 104 -degree fever and an old spine injury that had resurfaced. Gambaryan said he felt so fragile and weak that he “had become convinced that he was going to die”.

According to the articleGambaryan stayed in bed for weeks and had recourse to anticoagulants to prevent clots in his legs from the lack of movement.

“Every night,” he wrote, “he was awake until 5 or 6 am, too distracted by pain to even read a book. Sometimes he called his family and spoke to his daughter as she played a Japanese role -playing game, “wrote Greenberg.

Tigran Gambaryan was able to contact the outside world by a secret phone which he acquired during his stay in a Kuje prison cell. The Nigerian authorities did it in almost constant surveillance and bored that he would escape after his colleague from Binance, Nadeem Anjarwalla, managed to flee a government guest house and gave himself up from the country.

In his last moments at the guest house, Gambaryan was able to send a video asking for help from WE government by bringing him out of the precarious situation in which he was.

“Hello, my name is Tigran Gambaryan, I am the head of financial crime and compliance for Binance. I have been detained by the Nigerian government for a month. I don’t know what will happen to me after today, “he said in a video on March 23, 2024.

“They will remove my phone. The only thing I ask is that guys, I didn’t hurt anything. I was a cop all my life, I just ask the Nigerian government to let me go and ask the US government to help me, “he continued.

During his stay in detention, Tigran Gambaryan had to go through a series of legal hearings leading to his release. Overtime, he had become so low of his illnesses that he had drink in front of the crutch shorts. However, court staff were not authorized to help him in any way.

“It’s F * Cked Up!” Why can’t I use a fucking wheelchair? I am an innocent person. I am a fucking human, “he shouted in a viral video.

On October 23, 2024, the Nigerian court finally ruled in favor of Tigran Gambaryan release After the government has abandoned all accusations against him to allow him to obtain medical treatment abroad. His passport and his personal effects have been returned as well as permission to return to the United States, but not before he was ordered to pay a fine of $ 2,000 for having exceeded his visa.

The report also revealed that Gambaryan planned to join the government service and pursued human rights prosecution against the Nigerian government for having held it for 8 months in inhuman conditions.

“I wanted justice. And I still do it, ”said Gambaryan.