Friday, March 29, 2024

Tornado Cash Roman Storm Moves to Suppress and Compel Disclosure of Dutch MLATs


by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 29 – Roman Storm is charged using his cryptocurrency mixed Tornado Cash to help launder money for North Korea's hackers in the Lazarus Group.

On September 6, 2023 he was arraigned before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Katherine Polk Failla. Inner City Press was there - thread:

Cash helped North Korea's hackers Lazarus Group...There will be discovery from GitHub 

On December 5, Judge Failla docketed the trial schedule: "SCHEDULING ORDER as to Roman Storm, Roman Semenov. It is hereby ORDERED that the following trial schedule will be in effect: Trial will be set to begin on September 23, 2024, at 9:00 a.m." Full scheduling order on Patreon here

On March 29, 2024, Storm through counsel submitted motions to suppress and to compel discovery, including into MLATs with The Netherlands, and FinCEN and OFAC communications. Memo/motion on Patreon here

The case is US v. Storm, et al., 23-cr-430 (Failla)

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