A federal judge supervising the co-founder of Tornado Cash and a Roman Storm’s Criminal Priminal developer will allow jurors to hear testimonies claiming that he could have changed the platform “to dissuade criminals from using it”.
In a Sunday order, judge Katherine Failla rejected a request for defense asking to prevent the testimony of a witness to the government on the changes that Storm could have made in species of tornado.
The witness, Philip Werlau, investigator of the investigation into fraud and the anti-whiteness compliance company Anchain.ai, will be authorized to testify that Storm would have the means to stop tornado constraints to bleach the crimes by using intelligent contract characteristics, but not to have chosen not to.
“Such a testimony is authorized,” said Failla. “Defense indicates that” there will be no evidence that an “intelligent user register contract” has ever been used in the blockchain industry. This is perhaps the case, but Mr. Werlau can always testify to the implementation of such a functionality as long as it is technologically possible and that a software developer as Mr. Storm would probably have known. »»
On Monday, on Monday, marked the sixth day of the Storm criminal trial, where he is accused of money laundering, a conspiracy in sight to exploit a silver issuer without license and a conspiracy to violate American sanctions according to his role with Tornado Cash. American prosecutors said they expected to conclude their case by Friday, when Storm lawyers are starting to present their defense.
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To date, the American government has proposed testimonies of witnesses ranging from the pirates who would have used the crypto mixture to launder illicit funds to an FBI medical-legal accountant and a special agent investigating the case. Joel Decapua, a special supervision agent of the FBI cybercrime unit, said Thursday that his team had found 16 incidents each involving more than $ 5 million by moving to the Tornado in cash.
What does the case for the future of Storm mean?
Alexey Pertsev, another co-founder and developer of Tornado Cash, was arrested, found guilty of money laundering linked to the mixing service in the Netherlands. In 2024, a judge sentenced him to more than five years in prison.
The American Storm affair could have a different result. According to reports from the courtroom, Failla said that she was considering the accusations in business -related affairs, including that of the former CEO of the FTX, Sam Bankman Fried, the co -founder of Onecoin Karl Greenwood and the former product manager Opensea, Nathaniel Chastain. All three were sentenced to purge a prison sentence.
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The selection of the jury for the Storm trial began on July 14. The trial is expected to last three to four weeks, according to Storm.
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