According to ChainCatcher, citing CoinDesk, the money laundering criminal case of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm will be heard today in Manhattan, with prosecution and defense beginning jury selection, with the trial expected to last four weeks.
Storm was arrested in Washington state in 2023, facing three charges of conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to violate US sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business. If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 45 years in prison.
The prosecution alleges that Tornado Cash was used to launder over $1 billion in criminal proceeds, including funds from the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. The defense, however, argues that Storm is merely a developer of open-source decentralized software and should not be held responsible for others' misuse of the tool.
