A detenção de Pertsev foi estendida quando Tornado Cash atingiu US$ 2,8 bilhões em depósitos
Alexey Pertsev, o desenvolvedor do Tornado Cash , permanecerá em prisão preventiva por um longo período de tempo. O desenvolvedor principal expressou sua tristeza, afirmando que a decisão afetaria sua capacidade de se preparar para uma apelação.
Pertsev anunciou a notícia em sua conta X. Ele afirmou que continuará determinado a lutar por justiça, apesar da prorrogação da detenção.
A comunidade criptográfica no X tem apoiado. Recentemente, Pertsev recebeu uma doação de 50 ETH de Ameen Soleimani, criador do MolochDAO e veterano no espaço criptográfico. Soleimani afirmou que está disposto a igualar até mais 50 ETH em doações para ajudar Pertsev Alexey a financiar os custos contínuos do caso.
É com tristeza que anuncio que, apesar dos nossos melhores esforços, o tribunal decidiu prolongar a minha prisão preventiva. Esta decisão complica significativamente a minha capacidade de preparação para o recurso, mas continuo determinado a continuar a lutar por justiça.
Grato pelo seu apoio contínuo.🙏🏼
- Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) 21 de novembro de 2024
Tornado Cash still operational despite US sanctions
In August 2022, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash. The cryptocurrency mixer was sanctioned due to its alleged involvement in laundering more than $7 billion since its inception in 2019.
The money laundering activities included a staggering amount of $455 million stolen by the North Korean organization Lazarus Group.
Tornado Cash remains active with a total of $619.42 million value locked and a market capitalization of $13.14 million, according to DeFiLlama. The protocol still receives millions of dollars of deposits on a monthly basis. Last month, Tornado Cash received deposits of $176.48 million and processed withdrawals of $72.91 million.
According to FlipSide Crypto, Tornado Cash recorded a total of $2.8 billion in deposits and $1.3 billion in withdrawals in 2024.
On November 14, seven Democratic members of the US House of Representatives demanded answers from Treasury officials on the continued operations of Tornado Cash despite the sanctions. The Democratic members issued an official letter addressing the Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen.
“We write to request additional information about the ongoing use of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash after sanctions were imposed in 2022.” stated the letter.
The seven members including Brad Sherman, an anti-crypto Congress member, expressed their concerns and said, “Despite sanctions, Tornado Cash has remained online and continues to function as decentralized smart contracts.”
The letter stated that other centralized crypto mixers like Blender and Sinbad have been taken down, but Tornado Cash still operates, even seeing a resurgence in deposits and withdrawals. The Congress members also wrote about the involvement of Tornado Cash in facilitating money laundering for hackers, cybercriminals, and terrorist organizations
The letter ended with a list of questions, requesting the agency update the numbers of illicit transactions processed through the decentralized mixer. In addition, they questioned if the agency would impose secondary sanctions on people who have used the mixer. The Congress members who contributed to the letter also questioned if the Treasury Department has the tools to enforce the sanctions.
They requested the department provide answers by December 2.
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