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Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is believed to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the United States sanctioned the mixing service. electronic money decentralized.
The 29-year-old individual is “suspected of being involved in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering” through this service, the Netherlands Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) for know in a statement.
Although FIOD did not reveal the name of engineer Tornado Cash, The Block identified him as Alexey Pertsev, citing confirmation from his wife. “My husband didn’t do anything illegal,” she said.
The FIOD also alleges that “Tornado Cash has been used to conceal large-scale criminal cash flows, including (online) cryptocurrency thefts (known as hack and crypto scams).”
The agency, which initiated an investigation into Tornado Cash in June 2022, continues to hint that it is likely to make more arrests. It also claims that the people behind the organization have made large-scale profits from facilitating these illegal transactions.
Earlier this week, Tornado Cash became the second crypto mixer sanctioned by the US government after Blender.io for playing a central role in helping organized crime gangs launder proceeds of crime crimes such as ransomware and cryptocurrency hacking.
The platform works by aggregating and shuffling various digital assets from thousands of addresses, including potentially illegally obtained funds and legally obtained funds. , to hide traces back to the original source of the assets, giving the illegals an opportunity to hide the origin of the stolen funds.
If anything, the latest developments underline the growing scrutiny of crypto-mixing services over what is seen as a mechanism to cash out from bad cryptocurrencies.
This includes North Korea’s cash-strapped regime, which has been noted to rely on meetings cyber attack entered the crypto space to rob virtual currency, and in the process, the regime evaded economic and trade sanctions imposed on the country.
As such, the move to block Tornado Cash is also seen as an effort on the part of the US government to respond to North Korea’s use of cyberwar against cryptocurrency services and exchanges to fund cryptocurrency exchanges. their strategic goals.
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