The judge supervising the American criminal criminal trial and Tornado Cash developer and Roman developer Storm said that she was “inclined” to prohibit any mention of sanctions in 2022 against the cryptocurrency mixture in court.
According to reports from Inner City Press on Tuesday, judge Katherine Failla of the American district court in the South District of New York said that she was unlikely to grant a request prohibiting the mention of North Korea and the Pirates of the Lazare group in the case of the prosecutors against Storm. However, the judge would have said that she was “inclined to prevent the sanctions of August 2022 because they were then withdrawn”.
The sanctions in question returned to the US Treasury Bureau of Sanctions for Foreign Active Control (OFAC) adding addresses related to Tornado Cash to its list of nationals specially designated in 2022. However, after a federal judge ordered the repeal of sanctions within the framework of a civil affair deposited by Tornado users in March.
“The sanctions have been removed,” said Failla, according to Inner City Press. “SO [Storm] A consciousness of guilt for something he was not ultimately guilty. »»
Storm was charged in August 2023 for money laundering, the plot to operate a silver issuer without license and conspiracy to violate American sanctions. Failla should make the decisions on which witnesses will be authorized to testify before Monday, when the trial of the co-founder of Tornado Cash is expected to begin.
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The criminal affair against Storm has prompted many high -level figures in the crypto and blockchain industry to call the accusations to be abandoned, echoing the similar affirmations that “code writing is not a crime”.
The Ethereum Foundation, the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin and the founder of ParadigM Matt Huang contributed thousands of dollars to the Legal Fund for the co-founder of Tornado Cash before his trial.
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Assuming that it is advancing as planned, the STORM criminal trial is probably one of the most important legal events affecting the cryptography industry following the condemnation of the former CEO of the FTX, Sam Bankman Fried and the conviction of the former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, and the former CEO Celli Alex Mashinsky.
The co-founder of Terraform Labs, Do Kwon, also faces federal accusations linked to the fraud in securities, fraud of raw materials, market manipulation and money laundering after its extradition of Montenegro in the United States.
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