Tornado Cash developer, Alexey Pertsev, outside the prison. He revealed this himself today publication On his personal file.
What is Tornado Cash
Tornado Cash is a centralized protocol for unknown transactions on ETHEREUM.
It depends on smart contracts that confuse multiple transactions from different users, which makes it very difficult to track all transactions.
It was launched in 2019 by a team of unknown developers, but it ended until the subject of many differences, due to concerns about its potential use of illegal activities.
Against Tornado Cash, authorities from different countries, including the United States of America and the Netherlands spoke to the extent that many users eventually stopped using it.
The social channels of the project have been inactive since the second half of 2022.
Alexey Pertsev: Tornado Cash developer was released from prison
On August 10, 2022, a Tornado Cash developer, Alexey Pertsev, was arrested in the Netherlands. The charge was to facilitate money laundering.
The arrest took place a few weeks after the US Treasury added to the hurricane funds to the list of approved tools, prohibiting the use of the citizens of the United States.
Persif is suspected of participating in money laundering activities through Tornado Cash and is accused of facilitating laundering more than $ 7 billion of encryption boxes, including some of the North Korean infiltrators.
On the other hand, he claimed that he always restricted himself to developing the protocol, that is, to just create an open source software tool, and not to be responsible for how it is used. Moreover, he claims that he had no control over the money washing through Tornado Cash.
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Persif was under the arrest of the house in the Netherlands, and he was released today.
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“Freedom has no price, but my freedom cost a lot of money. The arrest of my house was not only possible thanks to the work of the lawyers who were paid with your donations. My battle has not ended yet, and for the final and safe victory, I still need your assistance.”
The Tornado Cash developer has not permanently owed.
He was under the arrest of the house for two and a half years, waiting for the final ruling.
This means that although he was released from prison, he was not considered innocent. The preventive detention period simply ended.
The issue is likely to be indirectly linked to Trump’s electoral victory, given that the preventive detention request has been supported by the US Department of Justice. Persif was arrested in the Netherlands, and since he was not released until today, he was still there.
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In May last year, Persif was primarily sentenced to 64 months in prison (more than 5 years), to be served in a Dutch prison. After that, while waiting for the final ruling, the House of Representatives was awarded.
Pertsev is now preparing to try an appeal, and also works to formulate an appeal for justice.
Technically, it has not been convicted to create the hurricane funds, but to facilitate money laundering.
Recycling activity is not a question, because there are little doubts about the illegal origin of these billions of encryption funds.
What is being discussed is the responsibility of the developer.
In fact, he claims that he cannot be responsible for the use of his program, while the Dutch judicial authorities argue that he was aware of the problem and did nothing, or even with the help of washing.
It is clear, given the primary condemnation, as of today, the full patent does not seem to appeal. However, the political context has changed, so it may have greater luck this time.
