A New York federal judge denied Roman Storm’s bid to dismiss US government charges. Storm is the co-founder of the crypto-mixing platform Tornado Cash.
Roman Storm, a developer and co-founder of Tornado Cash, is set to face a criminal trial over his creation of the crypto-mixing platform after a New York judge denied his motion to dismiss.
In a Sept. 26 telephone conference, New York district court judge Katherine Polk Failla denied Storm’s motion to dismiss three federal charges brought by the US Department of Justice, adding that government prosecutors had lodged plausible allegations against him.
Storm and fellow co-founder Roman Semenov were charged last August with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business.
