Tornado Cash co-founders charged with money laundering, sanctions violations By Cointelegraph

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The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Roman Semenov, one of the co-founders of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency “mixer,” to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) on Aug. 23. Another co-founder, Roman Storm, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division in Washington state the same day.

Semenov and Storm are being charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business in an indictment unsealed on Aug. 23. The first two counts each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The money transmitting charge is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.