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The US Ministry of Justice will cancel part of one number of its case against Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm for a recent political comment, the agency said on Thursday.
Will not go to court with accusation of a storm Failed to observe With the rules for registering trade in money, but in July it is still planned to court before charges that consciously transmitted funds associated with crimes, conspired to commit money and conspiracy for violation of the sanction law, said, said, the commissioned in a letter filed by a judge supervising his case.
“The government writes about updating the court regarding this case, which is scheduled for court 14 July 2025,” he said. “After examining this case, this office and the Office of the Prosecutor’s General determined that this prosecution is in line with the letter and spirit of the memorandum of 7 April 2025 from the Deputy Prosecutor.”
The Memorandum of April 7, who created a representative of the Prosecutor Todd Blanch, ordered the prosecutors to avoid cases where the regulation could be unclear, or did not meet certain criteria, specifically stating that it should end up “prosecution”. In another case, the prosecutors have already asked a judge who supervised the case to pause it while considering the note.
In his statement Brian Klein of Waymaker LLP told Coindesk that his company, which represents Storm, believes that “this case should never be brought”.
“His release would be in line with the policy of Trump’s administration and the principles of the Ministry of Justice in his recent cryptocurrency guide,” he said. “Roman’s prosecution is a threat to the whole crypto industry and the interests of justice will be best fulfilled his quick release. We will not stop fighting for Roman and this result.”
Klein spoke on Wednesday at the Coindesk Consensus 2025 conference in Toronto, where he also shared his opinion that the case should not be brought.
“One of the defense we raised, which is recognized in the US, is that coding – literally writing code – you get the protection of freedom of expression for coding,” he said. “It’s like you wrote a book or have done some other type of expressive activity.”
