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Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto
May 15, 2024
Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of a crypto-anonymizing tool, faces over five years in prison for laundering $1.2 billion in crypto. The podcast discusses the controversy around Tornado Cash enabling criminals to launder money, the implications for crypto privacy, and the legal accountability of developers in money laundering cases.
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- Tornado Cash developer sentenced to 5+ years for enabling $1.2B crypto money laundering.
- Crypto mixers like Tornado Cash, aimed at privacy, face scrutiny for aiding criminal activities.
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Developer found guilty of laundering $1.2 billion in crypto
In a recent trial in the Netherlands, Alexei Pertsev, a developer behind Tornado Cache, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison for money laundering. The tool he created, Tornado Cache, was alleged to have allowed criminals to launder $1.2 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. This case highlights the pivotal role of crypto privacy tools like Tornado Cache in enabling money laundering and the potential impact on financial surveillance efforts. Despite claiming lack of direct control over Tornado Cache due to its operation on the Ethereum blockchain, Pertsev was held responsible for facilitating criminal activity.
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