Tornado Cash Roman Storm is guilty in one in one in the Federal Curd case
“The claim to provide Tornado’s monetary service as a” private service “, the defendants in reality defined that it was a criminal that criminals participated in money laundering on a large scale and evading the penalties.
In the trial, the general prosecutors provided evidence that they claimed that Tornado Cash was designed to launder money from the beginning. Among their witnesses is the victim of fraud, whose stolen money has passed through a hurricane of money – although this account was The disputed online By the prominent members of the encryption industry-and as well as the convicts who used the service to wash unusual gains. “Washy, Washy,” fraudulent It is assumed that he wrote To his girlfriend, in a message about Tornado Cash.
When the government closed its case last week, prosecutors refused to privacy as a suitable distraction. “The real money in the so -called” privacy “for ordinary people”, Benjamin Jianvorte, one of the prosecutors was not. Quoted Say. “He was hiding dirty money for criminals.”
Even the storm and other developers took to wear a hurricane brand shirt Mamlid with a washing machine with a washing machineNotice the prosecutors.
Storm lawyers, and at the same time, Argument Although their client has developed the technology that was exploited by bad actors, he did not participate in any criminality and did not deal with any dirty money. “You will not hear any evidence that Roman or [other] The founders participated in any breakthroughs. ” He said Kerry Cortis Axel, a partner in the law firm and stormy lawyer, in her opening statements.
The storm was unable to prevent violations of Hurricane Kash, defense And according to what he statedBecause he and other developers have abandoned the ability to modify or disrupt the basic code, with a decentralized spirit.
The defense called for the position of a number of witnesses who I spoke to the possible legitimate uses of cash teeth. But the storm did not witness, which would have opened it to interrogate the prosecution.
Ultimately, although a guilty storm was found by violating the less money, the jury proved accepting the line of thinking in the defense.
“The jury divided the proverb,” says Mark Benny, a partner at the law firm Red Smith for encryption and former federal prosecutor. “While they are likely to be attributed to the convincing arguments of the defense that there are legitimate specific uses of the mixers and that the storm did not participate directly in any of the crimes in which the hurricane funds were used, they felt uncomfortable with the steps you took or did not take Tornado Cash to prevent illegal uses.”
The storm is now awaiting the issuance of judgments, which usually occurs After a few months of condemnation. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice must decide whether to re -calculate the money laundering that the jury could not agree.
“The government can choose to retry the meter on the number of the commentator, but based on the observations that were from the jury, I expect to go to the ruling based on the condemnation they obtained,” Benny says. “Although they are likely to argue in a severe sentence, it appears that the ruling of the jury takes a lot of sting from the government’s issue.”
Update 06/8/25 at 3:32 pm EST time: This article was updated with a statement from Matthew Green, a defense expert.