2025-02-11
27 分钟From Recorded Future News and prx, this is Click here.
Hey, it's Dena.
We have something a little different for you this week.
If you're a regular listener of the show,
you know we've been reporting on the detention of a Binance executive named Tigran Gambarian for almost a year.
He's a former US Federal agent who found himself trapped between the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange
and the government of Nigeria.
He was released late last year, and a few weeks later,
senior supervising producer Sean Powers and I sat down with him for his first audio interview,
and we decided to work with NPR's Planet Money to tell his story.
Take a listen.
This is Planet Money from npr.
There is this video that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I first saw it.
It's a short video, just 39 seconds long, of a bearded man with a tight haircut, a white T shirt, and a gold chain.
And he is filming himself selfie style.
But he seems to be holding the phone at this weird angle, as if he's trying to hide it from someone.
Hello, my name is Sigrid Gambierian.
I'm the head of financial crime compliance for Binance.
I've been detained by the Nigerian government for a month.
I don't know what's going to happen to me after today.