{"id":77564,"date":"2023-04-20T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77564"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:01:41","slug":"tornado-cash-developer-to-be-released-under-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tornado-cash-developer-to-be-released-under-house-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Cash developer to be released under house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tornado Cash mixer developer Alexey Pertsev, who is held in a Dutch prison, has been allowed to await his trial at home since April 26. This was reported by Eleonora Blank, the organiser of demonstrations in support of the Russian.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcJrUJOg9K\">https:\/\/t.co\/xcJrUJOg9K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 banteg (@bantg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bantg\/status\/1649000101820477441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to her, Alexey Pertsev will be under monitoring with an electronic ankle bracelet and movement restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>The next hearing in the case is scheduled for May 24. <\/p>\n<p>In August 2022 <span data-descr=\\\"United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">OFAC<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\">added to the sanctions list<\/a> Tornado Cash on suspicion of laundering more than $7 billion in cryptocurrencies. The service was used by, among others, the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. <\/p>\n<p>Chainalysis estimates that through Tornado Cash more than $3.5 billion passed, of which up to $1.2 billion was directly linked to thefts, hacks and other illicit operations.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 August, Dutch authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-amsterdam-authorities-arrest-alleged-tornado-cash-developer\">arrested the service&#8217;s developer<\/a> Alexey Pertsev. He is suspected of involvement in money laundering and concealing illicit financial flows.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, the Russian national <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-denied-bail-2\">refused bail<\/a> due to a high likelihood of flight. Pertsev denies any charges against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tornado Cash mixer developer Alexey Pertsev, who is held in a Dutch prison, has been allowed to await his trial at home since April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,718,1314],"class_list":["post-77564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-netherlands","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77564","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=77564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77566,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77564\/revisions\/77566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}