{"id":20968,"date":"2025-02-06T19:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-to-be-released-on-february-7\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:35:30","slug":"tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-to-be-released-on-february-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-to-be-released-on-february-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Be Released on February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, Alexey Pertsev, has announced that he will be released tomorrow, February 7.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear Friends, on Friday 7 February at 10 am I will be free! It is not real freedom, but it is better than prison. Today, a Dutch court suspended my pretrial detention under the condition of electronic monitoring. This will give me a chance to work on my appeal and fight for\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_pertsev\/status\/1887523522488283488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/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\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cDear friends! On Friday, February 7, at 10 am I will be free! It is not real freedom, but it is better than prison. Today, a Dutch court suspended my pretrial detention under the condition of electronic monitoring. This will give me a chance to work on my appeal and fight for justice. Thank you to everyone who supported me and helped make this possible!\u201d he wrote.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On May 14, 2024, a court in the Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-sentenced-to-64-months-for-money-laundering\">found<\/a> Pertsev guilty of laundering $1.2 billion through the mixer and sentenced him to 64 months in prison. Since then, the developer has been in custody. In July, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-denied-bail\">denied<\/a> bail pending his appeal.  <\/p>\n<p>In November, Pertsev&#8217;s pretrial detention was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developers-detention-extended\">extended<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Charges of money laundering and sanctions violations in the US have also been brought against Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2025, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/court-overturns-sanctions-against-tornado-cash-mixer\">overturned<\/a> the sanctions imposed by the <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> in 2022 against the mixer, sending the case back for further proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, Alexey Pertsev, has announced that he will be released tomorrow, February 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20967,"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":[1314],"class_list":["post-20968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"43","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968","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=20968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}