Tornado Cash Co-Founder keeps testimony plans that are unclear in advance of the test

Roman Storm, one of the co-founders and developers behind the Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency Service Tornado Cash, appeared in a video interview since his US criminal trial is expected to start less than two weeks.

In an interview released Wednesday Crypto in America, storm Says His legal team intended to address the trial of allegations that he had personally benefited from the forbidden funding through his role in Tornado Cash.

However, he refused to tell if he would testify to his own defense of money losses, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter, and conspiracy to violate US penalties.

“This is the decision we will make,” Storm said in a court. “I don’t have a 100% answer right now. I can or not.”

U.S. authorities accused the storm in 2023, approximately one year after the Treasury Department office of the Foreign Assets Control addresses connected to Tornado Cash. The government agency said the mixing service facilitated money laundering along with the crypto stolen by North Korea -based hackers, the Lazarus Group.

Roman Semenov, one of the other Tornado Cash developers named at the same accusation as a STORM, is still significant at the time of publication. However, Alexey Pertsev, another co-founder and developer, was found guilty of losing money in the Netherlands and penalized for more than five years In prison.

Related: The Ethereum Foundation has pledged $ 500k to the Roman Storm defense

Life while waiting for the test for the storm

From his arrest, the STORM has received an infusion of support from many people in the crypto industry, which is getting rid of his accusation as an attack on developers and privacy.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Blerin, Paradigm founder Matt Huang, and the Ethereum Foundation contributed thousands of dollars to the legal storm fund, which reported to have more than $ 750,000 to June 26th.

“I have a lot of damage to this case, obviously,” Storm said. “It is so damaging (…) you believe in one thing. You believe that there is a (SIC) common sense, there is a misunderstanding, and you get (sic) harsh things that are happening in your life. I definitely need to recover myself for a few hours to get back to what I want.”