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The judge supervising US criminal proceedings with the co -founder and developer Roman Storm in the US said it was “inclined” to prohibit any mention of sanctions 2022 against the mixing service of the cryptocurrency in court.
According to the Inner City Press report on Tuesday, Judge Katherine Failla from the US District Court in the South District of New York said Unlikely, in the case of prosecutors against Storm, a proposal forbidden to mention North Korea and hackers in the Lazarus Group would prohibit. However, the judge reportedly stated that “it was in favor of sanctions in August 2022 because they were later withdrawn”.
The sanctions concerned concerned the Sanctions of the US Foreign ASSOCIATION BRING, which add addresses associated with tornado cash to their list of specially designated nationals in 2022. After the federal judge ordered the cancellation of sanctions in the Civic Case filed by Tornado Cash Backtracted on the Crypto Mixer in March.
“The sanctions were downloaded,” Failla said according to Inner City Press. “So [Storm] He is aware of the guilt for something he wasn’t guilty for. ”
Storm was charged in August 2023 for washing money, plot for the operation of a non -cultivated transmitter of money and a conspiracy for violating US sanctions. Failla is expected to make decisions that witnesses will have the opportunity to testify before Monday, when the Court of co -founder Tornado Cash will be scheduled.
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Will Storm be convicted and sentenced to prison?
The criminal case against Storm has forced many prominent personalities in the crypto and the blockchain industry to call on the charge, and repeat a similar claim that “code writing is not a crime”.
Ethereum Foundation, co -founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin and paradigm founder Matt Huang have Contributed thousands of dollars to the legal fund of the co -founder Tornado Cash before his court.
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Assuming it moves forward as plan, Storm criminal proceedings are likely to be one of the most important legal events affecting the crypto sectors after the sentence of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Sama, the former CEO of Binance ChangPeng Zhao and former CEO of Celsius Alex Mashinsky.
Terraform Labs co -founder to Kwon also faced with federal fees Related to securities fraud, commodity fraud, market manipulation and money laundering after its release from Montenegro to the US.
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