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Tornado Cash Dev Wants Charges Dropped Because Sanctions Deemed Illegal

A court motion argues that "there is no deliberate action Mr. Storm could have taken here" with Tornado Cash.

Roman Storm, co-founder of crypto-mixing platform Tornado Cash, hopes to have charges against him dropped after sanctions against his software were dropped.

In Storm’s Dec. 18 motion to dismiss, he cites the recent Fifth Circuit ruling that the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) overstepped by sanctioning Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts. The ruling recognized that autonomous software that no one controls cannot be classified as property.

Tornado Cash Dev Wants Charges Dropped Because Sanctions Deemed Illegal

A court motion argues that "there is no deliberate action Mr. Storm could have taken here" with Tornado Cash.

Roman Storm, co-founder of crypto-mixing platform Tornado Cash, hopes to have charges against him dropped after sanctions against his software were dropped.

In Storm’s Dec. 18 motion to dismiss, he cites the recent Fifth Circuit ruling that the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) overstepped by sanctioning Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts. The ruling recognized that autonomous software that no one controls cannot be classified as property.
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