A years of legal battle between Crypto Policy Group Coin Center and the American Treasury Department on the sanctioning of Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash has officially ended.
In a 7 June after On X, Coin Center director Peter van Valkenburgh announced that the legal fight to punish the competence of the treasury to punish Tornado in the contant of money. His position came after the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had officially rejected the case, according to recent archives.
“This is the official end of our judicial struggle for the legal authority behind the TC sanctions. The government was not interested in progress and defending their dangerously exaggerated interpretation of sanction laws,” he wrote.
The dismissal follows a series of earlier judgments, including a decision of November 2023 in which a district court rejected the argument of Coin Center that the sanctions scored the rights of the first amendment, ruled that the Treasauries Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had been punished within its authority when the Tornado – – – – – – – – – – – – -Conto – – – – – – – – -Conto – – – – – – -Conto – – – – -Conto – – -Condo – – -Conto – – -ConDo – –
OFAC Sanctioned Tornado-Contant Money back in 2022 and claimed that the Platform helped illegal financial activities, including the money laundering of millions by the notorious North Korea Hackergroep Lazarus.
But earlier this year another court in Texas of AC ordered to cancel the sanctions, and the government chose not to appeal against that decision. As a result, the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that the case no longer had to continue.
“The government’s opinion is that OFAC’s termination of the designation disputes this appeal. The plaintiff is of the opinion that this appeal will be disputed after the opinion of Texas becomes final and unpleasant,” the court said.
Yet the legal problems of Tornado Cash are by no means over. Roman Storm, which was charged by the US Department of Justice for comparable accusations of facilitating illegal financial activities, will be tried next week. Storm has consistently maintained his innocence and declares that neither he, nor his co-founders have made knowingly criminal activities through the platform.
Co-founder of colleague Tornado Cash Alexey Ptsev was sentenced in May 2024 on similar charges and sentenced to 64 months in prison. He was recently released, but remains electronically monitored for house arrest. In the meantime, the third developer who is involved in the establishment of the Platform, Roman Semenov, also mentioned in the Doj Affairs, in general and the authorities has arisen since the first performance.
