Eighteen State Attorneys General wrote a joint letter asking for the release of a Binance executive from a prison in Nigeria.
A bipartisan coalition comprising 18 U.S. state attorneys general is formally requesting that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken undertake appropriate actions.
A bipartisan group of 18 US state attorneys general is asking President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to take action in securing the release of Binance’s compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan from a Nigerian prison.
Gambaryan, a former agent of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was arrested in February while visiting Nigeria to address regulatory concerns about Binance.
Gambaryan is facing charges of money laundering and operating an unlicensed financial institution.
In August, reports emerged that Gambaryan’s physical and mental conditions had deteriorated rapidly with the Nigerian government allegedly refusing to give him adequate medical care or basic treatment.
In their joint letter, the attorneys general ask for Gambaryan’s designation as a hostage under the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act, saying that the Nigerian government unlawfully incarcerated the Binance executive under potentially life-threatening circumstances.
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