American prosecutors in a criminal case against the co -founder and developer Tornado Cash Roman Storm testified the tax agent’s testimonies (IRS), preparing to rest on Thursday.
According to reports from Inner City Press on Wednesday, a special investigation agent IRS Stephan George he testified He analyzed transaction records related to the exchange of cryptocurrencies Crypto.com and Binance.
George reportedly said that the storm “[had] Control “over funds to Binance account sent Crypto to the addresses of bright Tornado Cash contracts, based on communication between the co -founders: Storm, Alexey Pertey and Roman Semenov.
The testimony took place at the challenge of Storm lawyers, which wanted To exclude it based on an overview of Hanfeng Lin’s experience – a victim of romantic fraud, which he had previously testified in a trial with stolen cryptographic means sent by Tornado Cash. Storm lawyers suggested that they could move to an error after research, did not suggest that none of the funds went to cryptocurrency mixing services.
“Although his accounting experience could provide him with specialist knowledge to conduct the analysis to which he was preserved, he does not qualify him for testimony in relation to tracking the influence of carptocurrency, which the government currently proposes, which includes not only tracking, but also assigning control over the different addresses of the portfolio to the alleged hacker, in which the identification of the relationship is in terms of the problem.” he said Storm legal team on Tuesday.
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The question of whether Storm had the ability to control Tornado cash by blocking or discouraging illegal funds from washing, as the prosecutor claims, is crucial for arguments in his criminal case.
It was expected that another government witness testified whether Storm could modify the platform to stop criminal activities, but apparently discussed the behavior of the mixer in response to sanctions.
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Defense lawyers are preparing to present their case
Storm faces the allegations of money laundering, a conspiracy aimed at running an unlimited transmitter of money and a conspiracy aimed at violating the US sanctions related to its role in Tornado Cash. American prosecutors said that they were expecting to end their case on Thursday “before lunch”, after which Storm lawyers will start to present their defense.
According to Inner City Press, Storm lawyers plan to call “two or three doctors” to testify, and maybe a chain expert.
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