The developer Ethereum Core Federico Carrone, known as “Fede’s intern” on X, confirmed that he was released after stopping in Turkey for 24 hours on the alleged links to the Privacy Protocol Ethereum.
“Finally, I am safe and free. There was a small moment whether things looked very bad, but thanks to the help I slowed down,” Carrone he said in post X on Monday.
According to Carrone, the Minister of the Interior of Turkey accused him of “helping others in conducting Ethereum” in an alleged relationship with the Privacy Protocol. Carrone said he thinks that it was related to the research document of January 2022, which assessed the user’s privacy at Ethereum and Tornado Cash.
“We have never helped anyone get involved in illegal activities, they were purely research on mixers and their real estate,” said Carrone.
This incident increases the tendency to arrest and stop and detained by the privacy programs of cryptocurrency programmers with Open Source privacy protocols-not more noteworthy than the co-creators Tornado Cash Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm, who are waiting for the final verdict in the highest undertaking in Up-to-date York.
This result may determine the precedent for the criminalization of Open Source privacy tools-at least in the USA-staggering a earnest risk of decentralized financial innovation, while limiting the right to privacy.
Carrone now in Europe after receiving facilitate
While Carrone is now in Europe, he said that the situation did not look promising early, after saying that he would be deprived of a mobile phone and would not be able to talk to anyone.
Carrone said, fortunately, some of his close friends from the United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, the USA, Europe, Argentina and even the Catholic Church immediately entered to facilitate, some contact with higher officials in Turkey to secure his release.
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Carrone added that even members of the Solana ecosystem provided contacts and offered facilitate.
“I will never forget their help and I hope that one day I will give away to everyone who supported me.”
Carrone wants to return to Turkey to solve it
According to Carrone, the matter is still going on, adding that his Turkish lawyer is still working on defense.
“We still do not have a full picture of what happened or why it happened, but we will introduce the best team we can and solve it,” said Carrone. “If necessary, [once] Things are solved, I will come back to clean my name and defend myself. “
Carrone transfers a huge donation for legal defense Storm
On Tuesday, Carrone said he transferred Ether (ETH) worth USD 500,000 support Legal defense Storm in the lithe of what happened to him.
“Roman’s legal defense is important because builders must know everywhere that they can speed up innovations and that the community will stand behind them when they do it.”
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