Jurors will decide the fate of the Roman Storm, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixed service Tornado Cash, after prosecutors and defense filed a statement on Wednesday.
The ending argument phase of the trial is when both parties summarize the case before a judge or jury, raise the case, and convince the case last before the fact-ford.
The storm is Conventional trials in southern New York In some cases, a precedent can be set for developers’ liability for illegally used decentralized software.
U.S. prosecutors claim that the storm conspired to launder money, violated U.S. sanctions and operated unlicensed currency delivery business. If convicted, the storm faces up to 40 years in prison.
The judge has issued a final direction to the jury, which will now begin deliberations.
Prosecution claims that Roman Storm is a conspirator
Ben Gianforti is an assistant prosecutor for crypto crime experience in the United States. debate That storm was a conspirator who committed “hiding dirty money”, running an “illegal communication business” that violated sanctions against North Korea and the Lazarus group.
Gianforti claimed in his closing remarks that the tornado cash was used after major security breaches such as Kucoin Hack and Ronin Hack, saying that the mixer platform transferred $350 million from the sanctions after the announcement of sanctions.
“It’s a simple story,” Gianforti said. according to Go to the inner city publishing house. “Tornado Cash is a fancy online money launderer. This business is the privacy of criminals. I urge you to use common sense. Roman storm is guilty. Thank you.”
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Defense claims storm never intended to help criminals
David Patton, a lawyer for the Storm Defense Group, made the argument that tornado cash, like many other technical products, was found useful among criminals and regular citizens.
Intent is the focus of Parton’s argument, he explain “It’s not enough to know that criminals use the product is not enough. You have to help the criminals intentionally. Rome’s intentions are exactly the opposite. From the United States, you think knowledge is everything you need.”
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Patton argued that the Storm did not want hackers to use tornado cash and they did not celebrate when they learned that North Korean hackers used it. “It’s not civil negligence,” Parton said. explain. “There is a good reason to have intentional intention.”
