The United States government can still rebuild the monetary developer of the stormy Roman travel on charges of money laundering and violating sanctions due to a pending jury, according to lawyers.
“The Ministry of Justice (Doj) will decide in the coming days whether she wants to retry those charges in a new trial,” “Jake Cheerfinsky, chief legal official at Venture Capital Firm Fund, books On x.
storm I am convicted in the number of one felony To get involved with Tornado Cash on Wednesday. The jury found him guilty of conspiracy to operate unlicensed money transfer work.
However, the jury members She did not reach a unanimous judgment On charges of consuming money laundering and conspiracy to violate North Korea sanctions.
Lawyer Aarojraph told Cointelgraph that the storm ruling still carries wider legal effects of decentralized protocols.
“The problem with this broad application of the Federal Funds Law is that, frankly, many worry about Defi, they can advance strongly for them regarding the hurricane funds. Although the government may not charge both Defi, the wide exposure gives them a strong stick in any negotiations.”
The possibility of the case for Permanent effects He drew attention to the encryption industry and privacy advocates. Lawyers say that the experience of placing precedents is crucial to digital privacy and can have a significant impact on open source software in the United States.
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Lawyers interact with the partial ruling
The United States can still return the Roman storm to the court on charges of conspiracy that has not been resolved to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate North Korea sanctions. The decision depends on several factors, including the possibility of securing condemnation in a second trial.
“If the Trump administration wants the United States to be the capital of encryption in the world, the Ministry of Justice should not be permitted to redirect the two accusations.”
Chervinsky Described Partial ruling as a “sad day for Defi” warns that section 1960 under the United States Law, which general prosecutors used to charge the storm while operating unlicensed money transfer work, is an existential threat to decentralized financial applications.
“Everyone in all, this leads to a somewhat frustrating conclusion,” lawyer Zak Shapiro books In X, but he said he was a good penalty of prison sentence on charges of money laundering was out of the table at the present time.
I think it is reasonable to conclude that the government may not salute the wrong charges of laundering money, given the political situation
American court The cash penalties canceled the hurricane In January 2025, decentralized encryption protocols and privacy protocols handed over a great legal victory.
The sanctions were imposed by the US Foreign Assets Office (OFAC) in 2022, accusing the encryption mixing service for money laundering.
Officials of the Ministry of Justice Claim The Tornado Cash protocol helped wash more than $ 7 billion of encryption between 2019 and 2022, and had a fundamental role for the infiltrators in North Korea that was washing the money stolen through piracy.
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