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Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was accused of laundering $1.2 billion of illegal funds through the platform, according to an indictment in the …
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Published on March 19, 2024 21:03 GMT+00:00edited on March 19, 2024 21:04 GMT+00:00
Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was accused of laundering $1.2 billion of illegal funds through the platform, according to an indictment in the Netherlands obtained by DL News.
The indictment alleges that Pertsev was involved in money laundering on Tornado Cash and cited 36 transactions on the platform that it alleges were illegal. One such transaction was of 175 ETH purportedly derived from the Ronin Bridge hack, in which the blockchain popularized by the web3 game Axie Infinity lost 173,600 ETH among other assets in an exploit worth a total of $590 million in March 2022.
Pertsev awaits trial in the Netherlands on March 26 for charges related to money laundering and other financial crimes.
Pertsev was initially arrested in August 2022. At the time, authorities …