“This will go down in history as a perversion of the law and a travesty of justice,” he added. “An appeal will be filed, if necessary.”
Storm, who has pleaded not guilty, argued in his March motion to dismiss that Tornado Cash was open source and not under his control. He presented himself as a developer who created software “to provide financial privacy for legitimate cryptocurrency users.”
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Prosecutors objected to the bid, questioning Tornado Cash’s characterization and alleging that Storm “made millions of dollars in profits” knowing the platform was being used for illicit money laundering.
Storm’s trial is scheduled for Dec. 2. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 45 years in prison if convicted on all three counts.
Tornado Cash's third co-founder, Alexey Pertsev, was found guilty of laundering $1.2 billion through the platform at the Court of Appeal in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, in May and was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.
He is preparing to appeal his conviction.
Semonov, a Russian citizen, remains at large.