Tornado Cash Roman Storm is guilty in one in one in the Federal Curd case

Roman storm, one One of the developers of a non -disclosure tool is the encryption identity Hurricane criticismHe was convinced of the operation of the unlicensed business that it is transferred by a jury in a New York court. Facing a The maximum sentence From five years in the federal prison.

In 2023, the US Department of Justice The charged storm With three violations: conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiring to violate the sanctions, and conspiring to operate the unlicensed business that transports them.

On Wednesday, at the end of a four -week trial and a period of five -day deliberations, the jury had a partial ruling: I found a guilty storm to operate the transfer of unlicensed money and not condemning the penalties. It failed to reach a unanimous judgment on the number of money laundering, which carries a A much greater punishment Up to 20 years in prison.

“We are grateful because the jury did not invite Roman because of its violation of the penalties or money laundering.” “We will not stop fighting for Roman and expect it to be completely justified,” says Brian Klein, a lawyer partner, one of the storm representatives in the trial.

The storm intends to submit individual condemnation to be rejected in the post -trial proposal, says WIRED.

Tornado Cash was developed in 2019 by Storm and two other two, Alexey Pertsev and Roman Semenov. The idea was to hide the ownership of metal currencies by collecting money that belongs to various different parties, then placed it in completely new portfolios, and thus the intersection of the general corridor of the transactions registered on Blockchain.

Services such as Tornado Cash are necessary as necessary to improve the level of privacy available for encryption owners. The privacy has always been The preoccupation between encryption ideologiesBut the issue is especially relevant at the present time, after a A series of violent kidnappings Supporting people known to have large amounts of encryption.

“Privacy is very practical for basic safety,” Vitalik Buterin, Cocrator of Ethereum Checker, told WIRED before the trial started. “If someone knows who has coins, then someone knows who is targeting.”

But the United States government watched Hurricane in a different way-a car specifically designed for money laundering. When the charges were brought in 2023, the Ministry of Justice argued that the storm had built a tool that allowed criminals to wash at least a billion dollars in encryption, among them infiltrators with relations with North Korea.

“The claim to provide Tornado’s monetary service as a” private service “, the defendants in reality defined that it was a criminal that criminals participated in money laundering on a large scale and evading the penalties.

In the trial, the general prosecutors provided evidence that they claimed that Tornado Cash was designed to launder money from the beginning. Among their witnesses is the victim of fraud, whose stolen money has passed through a hurricane of money – although this account was The disputed online By the prominent members of the encryption industry-and as well as the convicts who used the service to wash unusual gains. “Washy, Washy,” fraudulent It is assumed that he wrote To his girlfriend, in a message about Tornado Cash.