Alexey Pertsev, the developer behind crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of money laundering by a Dutch court at ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Pertsev, was first imprisoned in the Netherlands, where he has been residing, in August 2022 on charges of money laundering worth of $1.2bn in cryptocurrency. He was released in April 2023 and remained under house arrest pending his trial in March this year — the verdict of which was announced today. Pertsev’s arrest in the Netherlands came shortly after the US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash, alleging that the platform’s technology helped notorious North Korean Lazarus Group launder money…
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