OFAC’s Dropped Sanctions Against Tornado Cash Can’t Come Up at Trial, Judge Says

New York, New York – US Treasury Office (Ofac) Sanctions against Tornado Cash Privacy tool cannot be discussed in the upcoming developer process Roman Storm, and the federal judge decided on Tuesday.

At the status of Manhattan on Tuesday, the district judge Katherine Polk Failla initially waved to whether the experts would testify to the sanctions originally stored in August 2022, removed this March and subsequently found the Texas unlawful court.

After hearing the arguments from prosecution and defense, Failla decided to grant Storm’s proposal in Limine, which moved to ban the testimony of sanctions, and claimed that it would be too confusing what it described as “mental gymnastics” understanding why sanctions were stored and eventually removed.

“I am going to exclude references to sanctions in August 2022,” Failla said, saying that she would leave an open “unicorn” option – key evidence for prosecution that Storm’s alleged behavior after sanctions were stored – could change her mind. Failla gave prosecutors until Wednesday to present any such evidence. Judge ruled earlier on Tuesday that the parties would not be allowed to discuss the case of the Ministry of Finance Van Loon V.

The rest of the storm in the limin (Type of preliminary movement to exclude certain evidence or arguments from permission during court proceedings) They were rejected, including a proposal to exclude links to the Hacker Group North Korea, the Lazarus Group, and the proposal to exclude the “inflammatory characterization” of the torn Storm sales. At the beginning of the day, prosecutors stated that they were planning to present evidence that shows Storm to skillfully from his involvement in Tornado cash, including alleged purchase of more houses and selling torn tokens worth $ 12 million after the Offac sanctioning Tornado cash.

The prosecutors stated that they are not planning to argue before the court that Storm has violated the Secrets Act (BSA) By not performing a tornado tornado protocol, a protocol to express himself through his testimony he could have and decided to have it.

Failla also ruled to allow the government to present evidence from Storm’s Co -citizens Tornado Alexey Pertseva. The Dutch government has allowed the US Federal Office for Investigation (FBI) Agent to view the Pertsev phone content from which the agent reported its own message with selected information. Storm’s defense tried to blow up phone evidence Pertsev and claimed that the report was selected and could not verify, but the judge was prosecuting and decided that the report was permissible.

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It is not yet clear whether Storm will testify in his own defense, although Failla said on Tuesday that if he stood, he would not be allowed to say that he had the first protection in his work with Tornado Cash.

Failla stated that Storm was freely discussed about her faith in privacy rights, but she said, “I don’t think free speech or rights of the first amendment would appear in this court.”

The last interim conference will take place by phone at 15:00 et on Friday. Storm’s court is scheduled for the beginning of 14th June and is expected to run for four weeks.