U.S. citizen Tigran Gambaryan, head of crime compliance at Binance, was released by the Nigerian government this week and successfully returned to the United States after spending eight months in Nigeria’s notorious Kuje prison.

A US employee of cryptocurrency giant Binance Holdings Ltd. detained in Nigeria since February has been freed and is flying home.

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.