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Binance Hires Ex-U.S. Agent Who Led Probes on Silk Road, Mt. Gox

  • Tigran Gambaryan joins crypto exchange as VP of investigations
  • Fellow hire Matthew Price was lead investigator on Helix
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Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, hired a former U.S. Internal Revenue Service special agent who worked on some of the digital-asset world’s most high-profile investigations.

Tigran Gambaryan -- who led several multibillion-dollar cyber-investigations at IRS including on the Silk Road website and the Mt. Gox hack -- joins Binance as vice president of global intelligence and investigations, according to a statement. Another former IRS special agent, Matthew Price, is coming on board as senior director of investigations, Binance said.