A court in 's-Hertogenbosch in the south of the Netherlands has released under house arrest Russian Alexei Pertsev, whom the country's authorities accuse of money laundering due to the creation of the Tornado Cash service, which allows anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions. His wife Xenia told about this «Mediazona».
The man will be allowed to go home next Wednesday, April 26. The Russian will be able to use the Internet, but all his movements will be recorded with a special bracelet on his leg.
Pertsev has been in jail since August 10, 2022. US authorities also believe that $7 billion was laundered through Tornado Cash. Some publications draw attention to the fact that the St. Petersburg company Digital Security, in which the Russian worked in 2017, fell under US sanctions for “development of a project for the FSB.” Others, on the contrary, say that Tornado Cash helped them safely donate to the Ukrainian army.
After Tornado. A Russian created a service for anonymizing crypto payments and ended up in a pre-trial detention center in the Netherlands, and his project is under US sanctions