The American federal prosecutors refuted the allegations that they deleted from evidence in their case against the co-founders of the Wallet samourai crypto mixture, arguing that their disclosure of a conversation with the staff of the Treasury department was carried out within the required deadlines.
In a letter of May 9 to a Federal Tribunal in Manhattan, the prosecutors opposed a request for a hearing, claiming to have submitted “all known background communications” between them and the network of application of the financial crimes of the Treasury (Fincen) concerning Samurai “of the months before requests and the trial before withdrawal”.
“Defenders will have seven months to use the information before the trial,” they wrote. “Nothing more is justified.”
On May 5, the co -founders of Samurai, Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill, asked for a court in the court, saying that the prosecutors were late to reveal that Fincen representatives told them six months before invoicing the couple to the pair under the management of the agency, the service “would not be qualified as a` `monetary service company ” demanding a fincen license.
However, prosecutors still billed the pair in February 2024 with a conspiracy to exploit a plot in terms of money transmission and money laundering without license, disappointing the charges and stopping the couple in April of the same year. They both pleaded not guilty.
In their letter, the prosecutors argued that they “act in good faith” in the disclosure of the “content of this informal conversation” between them and Kevin O’Connor, the head of the section of virtual assets and the emerging technologies of Fincen, Lorena Valente.
They said that the comments of O’Connor and Valente were “their individual, informal and warning opinion” on the question of whether Samurai should register as a money issuer under the Fincen regulations.
Fincen “did not have the meaning” of samurai samurai
The letter of the prosecutor noted that an email of one of the prosecutors summarizing the call of August 2023 with Fincen said that because Samurai did not take care of the crypto, that “strongly suggests that Samurai does not act as MSB [money services business]. “”
However, he noted that the staff of Fincen “did not have a sense of what Fincen would decide whether this question was presented to their fincen policies committee”.
Samurai lawyers claimed that the call had shown that Rodriguez and Hill “were not money issuers under Fincen guide” and that they “could not be prosecuted so as not to have a license”.
The co-founders of Samurai had submitted to the rejection of the case in April, stressing that the assistant prosecutor general Todd Blanche be released this month, saying that the Ministry of Justice would not pursue the cryptographic mixers for “involuntary violations of the regulations”.
In their letter, the prosecutors addressed the note, arguing that the court “should not consider it”, because the memo says it “cannot be invoked to create a right or an advantage” against the United States or its services.
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