New York-a 12-year jury is sitting for the Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm’s Criminal Trial, and the opening of arguments is set to start later this afternoon at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.
Seven women and five men with different sets of backgrounds and ages will decide whether the U.S. Department of Justice may prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the storm is engaged in conspiracy to make money in the launch, conspiracy to violate US penalties and conspiracy to operate an unlucky business -free money. The jury began on Monday.
In the jury, only one works as an IT manager, while the other works on monitoring and data firm Palanter. The rest has various educational backgrounds from high school diplomas to a master’s degree, and their age is from individuals in their 20s to their 60s.
The court rested after the jury was seated, but the opening of the arguments would start shortly and it was expected to end before the business was completed on Tuesday. The test itself is expected to last about four weeks.
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The opening of the arguments came as the STORM defense team was trying to remove some of the prosecutor’s evidence to introduce during the trial, along with communications between the storm and his fellow Tornado Cash Developer, Alexey Pertsev.
The defense argued that a portion of messages obtained from Pertsev “failed to identify and false accusations that actually wrote messages,” along with an inquiry from a CoinDesk reporter who is now with Tornado Cash Developers after the Hack of the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack.
To them Pag -akusa Of the storm, the prosecutors characterized the inquiry that came from Pertsev:
“(Pertsev) sent a message to Storm and (Tornado Cash Developer Roman Semenov) by the airplated app, saying ‘Heya, anyone around to chat about Axie? Do you want to ask some general questions about how a person is about cashing of 600 mil,'” said Pag -Pag -Pagalat 57.
The message is actually from a former CoinDesk reporter, sent to a chat chat that includes others (Now holder) CoinDesk reporter and editor, as well as Storm and Pertsev.
“That chat is just one example of many,” the defense argues In a filing on Friday.
Correction (July 15, 2025, 18:15 UTC): Correcting a truncated sentence about the jury’s backgrounds.
