tldr; Alexey Pertsev, a developer of the now-sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has been ordered to stay in jail until Feb. 20 at least. The Dutch public prosecutor accused him of money laundering for contributing to the protocol’s code. He was arrested in August after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the protocol for allegedly being used by North Korean hackers.
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They increased his custody by 3 months citing that he might flee from the country. There is no evidence of his involvement in money laundering. They are treating him like a murderer. This is wrong on every level.
Guilty until proven innocent as I always say!
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They were fast to arrest this guy, others not so much…
tldr; Alexey Pertsev, a developer of the now-sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has been ordered to stay in jail until Feb. 20 at least. The Dutch public prosecutor accused him of money laundering for contributing to the protocol’s code. He was arrested in August after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the protocol for allegedly being used by North Korean hackers.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*
Code isn’t criminal!
#FreeAlexey
It’s absurd that this isn’t pinned on the Ethereum sub and talked about daily. Blows my mind.
Open source code falls under freedom of speech which was set in a precedent in the 1990s.
How long did it take them to arrest this guy? Let’s do a countdown from when ftx broke to when sbf gets taken into custody (if ever)
While billion dollar scammers are living scoot free. Alexey should have bribed the politicians before developing the software.
Sorry donated, not bribe… /s
And SBF is still walking the streets
I wonder why this is getting downvoted…
They increased his custody by 3 months citing that he might flee from the country. There is no evidence of his involvement in money laundering. They are treating him like a murderer. This is wrong on every level.
Code isn’t Criminal.
In jail for open source code? wtf
Damn, unlucky guy.