U.S. government officials on Wednesday started cracking down on co-founders of the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, just days after a federal judge decided that the government had the authority to sanction them.
FILE- The U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington, June 6, 2019. U.S. government officials on Wednesday started cracking down on the co-founders of the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, just days after a federal judge decided that the government had the authority to sanction them. , just days after a federal judge decided that the government had the authority to sanction them.
Also Wednesday, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging Semenov and Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm with conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and other crimes. Storm was arrested Wednesday by federal officials. Tornado Cash was sanctioned in August 2022, accused of helping to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019. Treasury says Tornado Cash’s systems were used, among other things, to launder more than $96 million drawn from the June Harmony blockchain bridge theft and August Nomad crypto firm heist. Federal prosecutors also charged Semenov and Storm with violating the sanctions against Tornado Cash.
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