Tornado cash co-founder Roman Storm lawyers may request a mistake to a government witness that they claim to have nothing to do with the crypto mixer.
Storm’s defense floated the idea of a mistake in Manhattan Federal Judge Katherine Polk Filla on Monday, questioning the testimony of government witness Hanfeng Lin on Tuesday, Inner City Press reported.
If permitted, a terrifying discretion can be seen Storm’s test It is considered invalid due to a judicial error – which in this case may be evidence that it should be excluded – and it can be removed across or rewriting a new judge and jury.
The storm faces up to 45 years in prison after being charged in 2023 with conspiracy of money in disobedience, conspiracy to violate Tornado CashThe crypto mixing service he established.
He was charged with fellow co-founder Roman Semenov, who did not appear in court and is believed to be in his native Russia.
The Government Witness recounted the crypto scam
Lin, the government’s witness, stood on Tuesday and brought a testimony of how he connected to $ 190,000 of a Crypto romance scammer Over whatsapp.
According to To Reporter David Morris, Lin approached online by someone in 2022 convinced him to buy Bitcoin (Btc) through a crypto exchange and withdraw it to a purported trading site incorrectly showed that he is making a high return, encouraging him to send more.
He said his funds were stolen, and the Crypto recovery service Payback told him that some of his Bitcoin were sent via Tornado Cash.
“Based on our weekend research, we cannot find that any of Ms. Lin’s funds went to Tornado Cash,” Storm’s lawyer David Patton said, according to the Inner City Press. “We need to talk to Mr. Storm about moving for a mistake.”
The government expert said he did not look at Lin’s case
News outlet the anger reported Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Crossing Government’s Crypto government that tracks specialized FBI special agent Joseph Decapua, who said he was not told to study Lin’s transactions.
Decapua had previously testified to detail the alleged crypto flow from the hacks and the tornado cash. Storm’s lawyer Patton said the defense is expected to connect Lin’s flow to the protocol, but “he doesn’t seem to be.”
Prosecutors reported that they would call IRS analyst Stephan George, another crypto monitoring expert, to show Lin’s funds that touched Tornado Cash.
Crypto Sleuths doubt Lin’s testimony
It is unknown what the storm defense team has done, but blockchain researchers recently said on social media that Onchain transactions tied to Lin’s scammers show funds that did not touch Tornado Cash.
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Metamask Security Researcher Taylor Monahan Na -Post It was on X on Friday that Lin’s scammers did not use cash tornadoes, and detailed how he could monitor Lin’s funds.
Monahan said the scammers replaced Lin’s bitcoin for Ether (Eth) and the transaction was onchain with others paying, the crypto tracing firm Lin hired, mistakenly mentioned from the scammer.
BLOCKCHAIN ANALYST ZACHXBT ALSO Sumang -ayon By the end of Monahan and criticized the payback review.
“(I don’t know) how you disturb the monitoring badly as a firm to which you can’t properly follow the instant exchange deposit 1 hop from a robbery and then follow the next TXNs on the wrong path to the tornado (cash), ZachxBT wrote.
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