The Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm will be charged with US

The US Department of Justice plans to make criminal charges against the co -founder of the cryptomic Tornado Cash Roman Storm. About it reports Decrypt with reference on a representative of the department.

Federal prosecutors claim that the storm was involved in conspiracy for money laundering, bypassing US sanctions and conducting illegal money through Tornado Cash.

The trial will begin in less than two months. According to the latest documents, the prosecution for violation of the rules of money transfers was partially removed – the prosecutor’s office acknowledged that these points did not meet the federal standards.

In 2019 Fincen It has specified that non -disaspent services – like Tornado Cash – are not classified as money transfers.

“The anonymous software supplier is not a sender. This definition is not subject to those who provide exclusively infrastructure for transmission, ”the explanation said.

The storm’s case is considered despite the recent internal instruction of the Ministry of Justice to change the approach to cryptomictors: now the focus is only those who use the tools for crimes, not the platforms themselves.

We will remind, another co -founder of Tornado Cash – Alexei Pertsev – in 2022 was sentenced to more than five years in prison for laundering $ 1.2 billion. In February 2025, he was released under electronic supervision of appeal.

Tornado Cash was under the sanctions of OAC in August 2022 for a role in laundering more than $ 7 billion. In particular, the service was used by the North Korean Lazarus Group.

On January 21, 2025, the Court of Appeal of the Fifth District overturned sanctions due to exceeding the offac. In March, more than 100 Ethereum address of Tornado Cash was excluded from the Black List. And at the end of April, the US Federal Court forbade the OAC to renew or re -sanctions on this service.

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