A judge in the Netherlands has arrested Alexey Pertsev, the developer of Tornado Cash, and set a 90-day deadline for the first hearing to take place. It is reported by CoinDesk with reference to the court representative.

The meeting was held behind closed doors on August 24. Pertsev’s lawyers failed to secure Pertsev’s release on bail. According to the post, the developer has not yet been formally charged.

8 August OFAC It has confirmed the Tornado Cash website and its associated 39 Ethereum and 6 USDC addresses.

According to the department, since the mixer was created in 2019, with its help, attackers have laundered more than $7 billion in cryptocurrencies. According to Elliptic, it is correct to talk about $ 1.54 billion.

On August 12, Dutch authorities arrested an unnamed man on suspicion of money laundering and concealing criminal financial flows through a cryptocurrency mixer. Later it became known that we were talking about Pertsev.

With his support, a rally was held in Amsterdam on 22 August. The participants stated that open source is not a crime and that the authorities should prosecute the real perpetrators.

Recall that Jess Powell, CEO of Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, called the sanctions against Tornado Cash unconstitutional, and TRM Labs analysts called it a challenge for compliance.

Representative Tom Emmer was also critical. According to him, restrictions on the mixer threaten privacy and innovation. He asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for clarification on OFAC’s actions.

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