New York – Prosecutors told a federal judge in the open court on Friday that they were considering a criminal charge to some employees of Crypto Venture Capital Firm Dragonfly Capital, including General Partner Tom Schmidt, including their 2020 investment in the 2020 for their 2020 investment.
Discussion between New York’s southern district (SDNY) prosecutor Nathan Rehan and District Judge Catherine Polk Filla came among a break in the ongoing trial of the allotment of Cash Developer Roman Storm, which was a conspiracy to plot for money laundering, which is a conspiracy to plot for money laundering, which is a conspiracy to plot for their function To create, which are ready for their work. In jail for 45 years.
During his case, the prosecution introduced a group of messages between Storm and two Dragonfly Capital Partners, Schmidt and Managing Partner Hasib Qureshi. In the context of the government’s case, the messages seemed to fulfill many objectives: to set up the appropriate site in New York (because the Schmid is based in Manhattan), to show that the storms and their colleagues made profits from tornado cash and to show that they made constant changes in the front end of the product, or user interfaces.
However, when the protecting team of the Storm raised the possibility of asking the shamit to testify-the possibility of providing references to the messages of your and storm and to invest in tornado cash-to invest in cash-the conveyors refused to grant a grant (as well as the defense witnesses). plead the fifth And a decline in testimony in protecting the storm.
“Are you probably prosecuting everyone in the dragonfali?” Phillah asked Rehan on Friday.
“Not everyone, but the shimit” and another person, Rehan said, According to Inner City Press,
The government then asked the judge to seal the portion of the open-court discussion, which she agreed to do.
Qureshi took X To protect your firm’s investment in tornado cash on Friday, writing:
“We consider deeply in the right to privacy of Americans, and its lack remains one of the biggest unresolved problems of Crypto. So we are standing with our investment. We have not operated or used any control over tornado cash, we had no contact with any malicious users, we have always encouraged our portfolio companies to follow the law, and we have always given our own portfolio companies to follow laws Keep it. ” “It would be unprecedented to charge an enterprise firm for alleged misconduct of a portfolio company, especially under these circumstances.”
Qureshi said that the dragonfali “fully collaborated” in the tornado cash with the government’s investigation, which he started in 2023.
Qureshi said, “It would be derogatory to bring allegations against this time after this time-unlike facts, and crepto and privacy-conservation technologies in the US will create a cool effect on all investments in technologies.” “We don’t believe that DOJ will actually bring such absurd and baseless allegations. But if they do, we intend to strictly defend ourselves.”
