Tornado Cash Dev Pertsev's $1.2B Money Laundering Allegations Detailed Ahead of Dutch Trial

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Sandali Handagama is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for policy and regulations, EMEA. She does not own any crypto.

Russian developer Alexey Pertsev is accused of laundering $1.2 billion worth of crypto through the anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, Dutch prosecutors detailed in an indictment shared ahead of his trial on March 26.

Storm pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is set to go on trial this September. The U.S. has not yet been able to arrest Semenov.in August 2022 on vague charges shortly after Tornado Cash was blacklisted by a U.S. sanctions watchdog for its alleged useDuring 2023 hearings at a ‘S-Hertegonbosch court, Dutch public prosecutors said

The indictment lists nearly 40 transactions coming up to 535,809 ETH originating from different platforms, including KuCoin and Liquid – an, which saw around $625 million stolen in a 2022 exploit – one of the worst in crypto's history. The exploit has been blamed on the notorious hacker group Lazarus, with alleged ties to the North Korean government.

 

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