{"id":18857,"date":"2024-11-23T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tornado-cash-developers-detention-extended\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:40:02","slug":"tornado-cash-developers-detention-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tornado-cash-developers-detention-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Cash Developer&#8217;s Detention Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court has extended the pre-trial detention of Alexey Pertsev, the developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am sad to announce that, despite our best efforts, the court decided to prolong my pre-trial detention. This decision significantly complicates my ability to prepare for the appeal, but I remain determined to continue fighting for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Grateful for your ongoing support.??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_pertsev\/status\/1859701374814126484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis decision significantly complicates my ability to prepare for the appeal, but I remain determined to continue fighting for justice,\u201d the programmer stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The court&#8217;s ruling comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/casten.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/casten_tornado_cash_letter.pdf\">interest<\/a> from U.S. lawmakers regarding the Treasury&#8217;s measures concerning the mixing service. A group of congressmen noted that sanctions against Tornado Cash were imposed back in 2022, yet the platform continues to operate.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2024, there was a surge in the mixer&#8217;s use. Deposits amounted to $1.8 billion, a 45% increase compared to the entire previous year. Politicians have requested information from the department on enforcement actions against individuals and companies using Tornado Cash. <\/p>\n<p>On May 14, a Dutch court found Pertsev guilty of laundering $1.2 billion through the mixer and sentenced him to 64 months in prison. He has been in custody since then. In July, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-denied-bail\">denied<\/a> bail pending an appeal.  <\/p>\n<p>Charges of money laundering and sanctions violations in the U.S. have also been brought against Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court has extended the pre-trial detention of Alexey Pertsev, the developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. I am sad to announce that, despite our best efforts, the court decided to prolong my pre-trial detention. This decision significantly complicates my ability to prepare for the appeal, but I remain determined to continue fighting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1314],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}