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Roman Storm, co -founder of sanctioned Tornado Cash Mixer of cryptocurrencies, accused the federal prosecutor of the fundamental incorrect treatment of key evidence before his criminal proceedings on July 14 in Manhattan.
The dispute focuses on reading a telegram “Heyo, someone around to talk about axies? Would you like to ask a few general questions about how you pay 600 miles,” which referred to the use of Axie Infinity of $ 600 million.
According to Judicial submissions of 12 July 2025“The prosecutors initially claimed that the message was written by Storl’s associate Alexey Pertsev.
The advocates revealed that the report was actually written by Andrew Thurman, former reporter Coindesk Senior Tech, and then handed over Tornado Cash Chat by Pertsev.
The apparitions appeared just days before the Storm court about charging the conspiracy for committing money laundering and violations of sanctions related to tornado cash, which allegedly facilitated more than $ 1 billion in unlawful transactions.
Government evidence chain under fixed control
The controversy stems from the extraction of the Dutch authorities about what they claim that prosecutors are in their arrest in the Netherlands where it was, where it was, where it was sentenced to 64 months in prison For washing money through cash tornadoes.
It moves federal fees against Roman Storm, co -founder of Tornado Cash, after dropping the non -cultivated money transfer fee.#TORNADOCAS #Romanstorm https://t.co/zgxe7igrez
– Cryptonews.com (@cryptonews) 16. May 2025
Storm’s defense claims that government extraction contains several fatal shortcomings, including missing information about the author for the telegram reports and incomplete search for FBI Agent Dickerman from the Dutch authorities.
Defense claims that prosecutors cannot verify the completeness of extraction because they were limited in what files they could obtain from the Dutch enforcement of law.
This call for authentication becomes more significant as the government admitted in the trial that its original production of extracted text messages in September 2023 did not include the “transmitted” brand on the reports passed.
The prosecutors provided a repaired version in December 2024, which they plan to use in court, but advocates claim that this timeline raises serious issues regarding the proof of government evidence.
The championship brought real consequences in court proceedings, when the US representative Ben Arad mentioned the report during the preliminary hearing of July 8 and told the judge that he had proven the awareness of co -founders of the unlawful conduct.
According to the transcript of hearing Arad said to the court: “For example, when Ronin Hack has become, one of the conspirators, sum and essence, I would like to ask you some questions about how you are about to wash a $ 600 million crypt.”
The defense characterized this as the provision of “false information” of the court and a potentially large jury that has issued accusations.
The advocates wrote in their submission: “Given that the government accidentally attributed a telegram report to the reporter at the premetrial conference, it seems that the government itself did not know about this issue until the defense ran.”
Challenges for enforcing echoes across crypto
The evidence dispute emphasizes the pattern of prosecutorial challenges that occur across highly profiled cases of cryptocurrencies, especially if international evidence that intersects with complex digital communication is collected.
Just last month faced a milking problem of verification in the case of the CEO of Russian crypt Iuria Guggin, which was Accusations of organizing fraud scheme of $ 530 million Through its platform based in Miami Evita.
The Russian crypt company, the CEO, has used its crypto company, Evita, to bring $ 530 million overseas payments through US banks and crypto platforms.#Evita #Cryptophraud #Iuriigugninhttps://t.co/hk5kgucf95
– Cryptonews.com (@cryptonews) 10th June 2025
This case also included cross -border collection of evidence and questions about the authenticity of digital communication used to introduce a criminal intention.
Storm defense has constantly claimed that this case is threatened to criminalize the development of software with an open source code with Ethereum Foundation promises $ 500,000 Towards his legal defense and adaptation up to $ 750,000 in the community posts.
As part of the fraud procedure, recently confiscated $ 225 million in USDT It was associated with global fraud of “butcher’s pigs”, which cheated on more than 400 victims through the network of international stock exchanges and wallets.
Contribution Tornado Cash Developer Storm claims to be blocked by critical telegram proof He appeared for the first time Cryptonews.
