Tornado Cash Developers Charged With Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations That Facilitated Over $1 Billion in Illicit Transactions
Two more developers who worked on Tornado Cash, an Ethereum network-based privacy protocol designed to obfuscate the link between sending and receiving addresses, are being charged by the US Depart of Justice. Developers...
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Developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov are both being charged with money laundering and sanctions violations, owing to their work on the protocol....
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