{"id":83503,"date":"2023-08-24T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83503"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:30:50","slug":"fbi-arrests-tornado-cash-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fbi-arrests-tornado-cash-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrests Tornado Cash co-founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 23, the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20230823\\\">filed charges<\/a> against two co-founders of the crypto mixer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-tornado-cash-mixer-and-why-was-it-sanctioned\">Tornado Cash<\/a> \u2014 Roman Storm and Roman Semenov \u2014 for money laundering and sanctions violations.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has detained Storm. Semenov remains at large, but the U.S. Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added him to the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/specially-designated-nationals-and-blocked-persons-list-sdn-human-readable-lists\\\">sanctions list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, both individuals conspired to launder money, violate sanctions, and operate an unlicensed business.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;Roman Storm and Roman Semenov allegedly operated Tornado Cash and deliberately aided in laundering funds. Publicly claiming to offer a technically sophisticated confidentiality service, the defendants knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the proceeds of their crimes,&#8221; according to OFAC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to analytics firm <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.elliptic.co\/blog\/ofac-sanctions-tornado-cash-developer-roman-semenov\\\">Elliptic Connect<\/a>, eight mixer-associated addresses sanctioned under OFAC processed more than $11.5 million in various crypto assets.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2022, OFAC <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\">added to the sanctions list<\/a> the Tornado Cash site, through which, according to the agency, attackers laundered more than $7 billion in cryptocurrency. More than $455 million of them are linked to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 August, Dutch authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-amsterdam-authorities-arrest-alleged-tornado-cash-developer\">arrested<\/a> developer Alexey Pertsev on suspicion of involvement in money laundering and concealing criminal financial flows. He denied all charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-to-be-released-under-house-arrest\">the court changed Pertsev&#8217;s remand to house arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 23, the U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against two co-founders of the Tornado Cash crypto mixer \u2014 Roman Storm and Roman Semenov \u2014 for money laundering and sanctions violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1314,26],"class_list":["post-83503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-tornado-cash","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83505,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83503\/revisions\/83505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}