In 2024, Money Laundering’s Tornado Cash Developer Alexi Partev has been released from jail under electronic surveillance as he continues his legal battle.
31 -year -old Russian National sentenced him to 64 months in a Dutch jail in May last May, announced his release in a post on 6 February, stating, “Dear friend, Friday 7 February at 10 am I will become independent! This is not real freedom, but it is better than prison. ,
His release follows the ongoing debate on many rejected bail requests and legal treatment of privacy-centered crypto developers. A Dutch court suspended its pre -belt custody to focus on appealing his sentence.
Pertsev was issued on the condition that it be monitored electronically.
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In a two -day test by Partev, the 30 -year -old Russian citizen defended his role in the Crypto Mixer, explaining that technology, especially smart contracts made it impossible for them to find users who made their transactions unknown The service was employed.
The prosecution stated that the code of tornado cash provided the facility of money laundering to effectively hide their origin to the North Korean-Juda Lazarus Group to transfer the stolen amount to various wallets.
Pertsev was found guilty of failing to prevent illegal transactions through tornado cash, a crypto-mixing protocol that was approved by the US Treasury, allegedly competent than $ 7 billion in money laundering.
