Gambaryan said he wanted to hear Ogunjobi explain himself. On the phone, Gambaryan recalled, the EFCC official began to cry, sorry many times, thanked God that Gambaryan was released.
For Gambaryan, it is too much to handle. He quietly listened without accepting apologies. In the middle of Ogunjobi's flow, he realized that an American friend was calling, a secret service worker he had worked in the past. Gambaryan did not know that, but the representative was at Rome for a conference with the former boss of Gambaryan, the head of the IRS-CI cyber criminal department, Jarod Koopman, both wanted to carry beer and pizza at the hotel. His.
Gambaryan told Ogunjobi that he had to go, and he ended the call.
In a cold And December December on Capitol hill, former federal prosecutors and prosecutors, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and assistants of the National Assembly integrated in a luxurious room in the Rayburn House office building . Each one, the members of the National Assembly entered and shook hands with Tigran Gambaryan, who wore a dark blue outfit and a tie, his beard was trimmed and clean, only softly when surgery Emergency on the spine he spent a month earlier in Georgia.
Gambaryan took photos and chatted with every lawful, assistant and official Ministry of Foreign Affairs to thank them for their role in taking him home. When French Hill said it was good to see him again, Gambaryan said he hoped he had a better smell than him in his meeting in Kuje.
The reception is one of the series of VIP welcome that Gambaryan has received when returning. At the airport in Georgia, the representative of McCormick came to welcome him, and gave him a American flag flying on the capital building the day before. The White House is released one declare Note that President Biden called President Nigeria and emphasized his appreciation for the leadership of the President Tinubu in ensuring the release on the humanitarian basis of the American citizens and the former official. US law enforcement Tigran Gambaryan.
Thank you, then I know, part of the agreement that the US government has beaten with Nigeria, which also includes support in the investigation of Binance, still ongoing. Nigeria continued to prosecute both Binance and Anjarwalla absent. A Binance spokesman wrote in a statement that the company was relieved and grateful that Gambaryan was home and expressed thanks to all those who worked to ensure the release. We are eager to put this episode behind us and continue to work with a brighter future for the Blockchain industry in Nigeria and around the world. We will continue to protect ourselves from fake statements. The Nigerian government officials did not respond to Wired's repetitive requirements to comment on Gambaryan's case.
After the reception, Gambaryan and I got on a taxi outside, and I asked him what the next for him. He said he could return to the government, if the new government would have him and if Yuki would make another move back to DC. (News website Crypto Cindesk Report last month That he was introduced by people in the cryptocurrency industry connected to President Trump because of high -class roles such as the head of cryptocurrency assets at the SEC or senior position in the FBI network.) Perhaps it takes time to speak frankly.
I asked him how he felt the experience in Nigeria changed him. “I guess it made me angry?” He answered in a strange tone, as if he first thought about the question. It makes me want to have revenge against those who have done this.
Revenge Gambaryan may not just be an illusion. He was pursuing a human rights lawsuit against the Nigerian government starting in the process of detaining him, and hoping to have a Nigerian investigation, whom he argued that he kept the hostage. In the better part of life. Sometimes, he said, he even sent a message to the individual officials he was responsible, told them, you will see me again, but not what they did to the family. he.
Am I stupid to do that? Perhaps, he told me in a taxi. I was on the floor with back pain and bored.
When we got out of his car at his hotel in Arlington and Gambaryan lighting a cigarette, I told him that even though he described himself as before in prison, he really It seems more calm and happier over the years when I include his serial destruction about corruption federal agents, money for money money laundering and children's abusers, England, England. It always makes me angry, motivated, constantly pursuing the goals of his investigations.
Gambaryan answered that, if he seemed more comfortable now, just because he was very happy to stay at home very big when he met his family and friends, so that he could walk, so as not to be captured in the middle The forces were much larger than he was conducting a conflict that was very little to do with him. Do not die in prison.
As for being motivated by the past, Gambaryan disagrees.
“I'm not sure it's anger. It was justice, he said. I want justice. And I still do. “