According to CoinDesk, Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, who was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned in Nigeria for eight months, has been recommended for several positions in the Trump administration, such as the head of cryptoassets at the SEC or the leadership of the FBI's cyber division. According to people familiar with the matter, the proposal to the Trump transition team came from people associated with Trump's participation in the Bitcoin 2024 Nashville conference, including event organ...
On November 16, US prosecutors said convicted Archegos Capital Management founder Bill Hwang should be sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison, tweeted for the first time since the U.S. election that he hoped President-elect Donald Trump would fulfill his promise to reduce his sentence. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on charges of money laundering, computer hacking and drug trafficking conspiracy in 2015. In an X post, Ulbricht said: "Thank you so much to everyone who voted for President Trump on ...
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has begun serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence in a Maryland prison. Salame, who previously served as co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, was being held at FCI Cumberland, Md., as of Saturday morning, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. The prison is a "medium-security federal correctional facility with a minimum-security satellite camp next to it." It holds more than 1,000 inmates, according to the prison website.
Detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan was still being held in a Nigerian jail on Wednesday, with Judge EmekaNwite allegedly appearing to be absent from Gambaryan's hearing this week, instead going to attend a seminar at the National Institute of Justice in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Gambaryan's hearing has now been rescheduled for Friday, October 11. He has been held in Nigeria since the end of February 2024, when he was charged by Nigerian authorities with money laundering and tax evasi...
Russia has sentenced a former chief investigator, Marat Tambiyev, to 16 years in prison after he was found to have accepted 1,032 BTC bribes, now worth $65 million, from a group of hackers. Last year, Tambiyev was accused of accepting BTC bribes from people associated with the "Infraud Organization", a hacking group being investigated by Russia's Investigative Committee. As part of the agreement, Tambiyev agreed not to confiscate the group's illegally obtained bitcoins. He subsequently received ...
According to the official website of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, Zhao Changpeng's current location has been updated to the Long Beach Residential Reintegration Administration in central California. This means that he is undergoing pre-reintegration preparation and evaluation. If all goes well, he will be reintegrated into society on September 29. (Securities Times)
On September 21, it was reported that "Zhao Changpeng, the richest man in China, is about to be released from prison" on Baidu's top five search list. Previously, it was reported that Zhao Changpeng would be released from the Residential Reentry Management in Long Beach on September 29, according to the official website of the Bureau of Prisons. The so-called "Residential Reentry Management", also known as "halfway house", mainly acts as a federal prison...
According to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao will be released from a US prison on September 29. Zhao is currently serving a four-month prison sentence and was recently transferred to the Long Beach Residential Re-Entry Management (RRM) in central California. RRM acts as the local federal prison liaison, assisting inmates who are about to be released by working with federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, and local correctional agencies.
According to the official website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the 47-year-old Asian man "CHANGPENG ZHAO" will be released on September 29, 2024, registration number: 88087-510. According to a report by Bloomberg in June, 47-year-old Binance founder CZ, identified as inmate 88087-510, was headed to a federal prison in California to begin a four-month sentence.
Previously, it was reported that CZ may be released from prison on September 29, 2024. According to this information, there are only four weeks left before CZ is released from prison.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, CZ is expected to be released on September 29. But parts of the crypto community seem to have wrongly and prematurely celebrated the crypto entrepreneur's freedom. The confusion may be due in part to CZ's transfer this week from a minimum-security prison in Southern California to RRM Long Beach, a residential program that prepares inmates nearing the end of their sentences to reintegrate into society. RRM, or the Office of Reintegration Management...
On August 19, according to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, information on a case suspected to be highly linked to Binance founder CZ shows that 47-year-old Asian man CHANG PENG ZHAO will be released on September 29, 2024, registration number: 88087-510, located in LongBeachRRM.
The British hacker was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for a Coinbase phishing scam involving the theft of approximately $900,000. He obtained more than 500 Coinbase account info through phishing sites in 2018 and 2019. In addition, he was also ordered to repay £407,359 (current value $524,700) for hacking into several Instagram accounts.
Nigerian prison officials said Thursday that Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive being held in the country, did not have "serious health conditions" and was "in good condition" during his detention. Gambaryan's family has insisted in recent weeks that his health is deteriorating, but a spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Service has insisted that the prison can meet Gambaryan's health needs.