The indescribable story of the origin of the crimes of encryption to the Nigerian prison

Gambary says he wants to hear Eugenggo explaining himself. On the phone, Gambarian remembers, the EFCC official started crying, repeatedly apologizing, and thank God that Gambary was released.

For Gambaryan, it was a lot of treatment. Listen calmly without accepting an apology. In the midst of the Ogunjobi flow, he noticed that an American friend was calling, a secret service agent who was working with him in the past. Gambarian did not know this yet, but the agent was in Rome to attend a conference with the old president of Gambarian, head of the electronic crime department in the Tax Authority, Garroud Kobman, both of whom wanted to bring him beer and pizza in his hotel.

Gambarian Oujongo told him that he had to go, and ended the call.

On the cold Wind Day in December in Capitol Hill, Federal agents, public prosecutors, foreign ministry officials and Congress assistants mix in a luxurious room in the Ripporen House office building. One after the other, members of Congress come and shake hands with Tigran Gambaryan, who wears a dark blue suit and tie, and his murder is close again and her head shaved cleanly, and only a little bit of emergency surgery on the spine that underwent a previous month in Georgia.

Gambarian puts pictures and chats with every legislator, assistant and official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time to thank them for their role in returning him home. When Franch Hill says it is good to see him again, Gambarian contemplates a better smell than he did during their meeting in Koji.

The reception is one in a series of dignitaries who welcomes that Gambarian received it upon his return. At the airport in Georgia, the actor McCarkik came to receive him, and gave him an American flag that flew over the Capitol building the day before. The White House issued a statement He pointed out that President Biden described the Nigerian President and “confirmed his appreciation for the leadership of President Thynoubo in securing the release of the humanitarian foundations of the American citizen and a former US law enforcement official, Tigran Gambary.”

Later, I learned a statement of thanks, part of the deal concluded by the United States government with Nigeria, which also included helping to investigate Binance – which is still continuing. Nigeria continues to prosecute Binance and Anjarwalla in the absence. A spokesman for Binance wrote in a statement that the company “is comfortable and grateful” that Gambary is at home and expresses the thanks of all those who worked to secure its launch. “We are keen to put this episode behind us and continue to work towards a brighter future for the Blockchain industry in Nigeria and around the world.” “We will continue to defend ourselves against false allegations.” Nigerian government officials did not respond to WIRED requests to comment on the Gambaryan case.

After the reception, I and Gambaryan entered a taxi abroad, and I ask him what is the next for him. He says he may return to the government, if the new administration will get it – and if Yuki will return with another return to the capital. (Crypto News Coindsk I mentioned last month It is recommended by those familiar with the cryptocurrency industry with links to President Trump for high -level roles as head of encryption assets in the Supreme Education Council or a high -level position in the Cibran department at the FBI.) Before he sees anything like that, he says in a way Mysterious, “I may need time to get a straight head.”

Ask him how he feels that the experience in Nigeria has changed it. “I think it made me more angry?” He responds in a strange light tone, as if he was thinking about the same question for the first time. “It made me want to get revenge against those who did it.”

Revenge against Gambarian may be more than imagination. He is following a lawsuit for human rights against the Nigerian government, which started during his detention, and hopes that there will be an investigation into the Nigerians who argue with his hostility to a better part of his life. Sometimes, he says, he even sent messages to individual officials bearing responsibility, and telling them, “Retr me again”, that what they did “brought shame on the badge”, so that he could forgive what they did, but not what they did to his family.

“Was it a stupidity for me to do it? Maybe,” tell me the cabin. “I was on the floor with back pain and feel bored.”

While we get out of the car at his hotel in Arlington and Gambaryan lighting a cigarette, he told him that although he described himself as more angry than his time in prison, he actually seems quieter and more happy than past years – that. When I was covering the serial removal of the corrupt federal agents, laundering of encryption funds, and children’s users, he always shocked me as angry, paid, unabated in chasing the goals of his investigations.

Gambary answers that if it seems more relaxed now, then this is only because he is happy to be at home – it is useful for his family and friends to see, to be able to walk again, so that the forces are not much greater than himself who is launching a conflict that was not for him A great relationship with it. His death in prison.

As for being angry in the past, Gambarian is different.

“I am not sure that it was anger. This was justice.” I wanted justice. I still do. “