After spending eight months detained in the country, the Binance enployee was allowed to leave Kuje prison last night.

Binance’s Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, has departed Nigeria after eight months of detention. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange made the disclosure in a statement shared with The PUNCH on Thursday.

On Wednesday in Abuja, a court ruled that criminal charges against Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive who previously served as an IRS criminal investigator for a decade, will be dropped on medical grounds as pressure from the US government has grown to secure Gambaryan's release.