New York, New York – Office of US Treasury Department of Foreign Asset Control (TOC) The upcoming testing of the developer Roman Storm cannot discuss sanctions against the privacy tool tornado cash, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
At a status conference in Manhattan on Tuesday, District Judge Catherine Polk Filla initially emphasized whether he would allow expert witnesses to testify about sanctions, which were initially imposed in August 2022, removed the march and later found illegal by the Texas Court.
After hearing the argument from both prosecution and rescue, Fila decided to go into the limine’s speed to restrict the testimony about the restrictions, arguing that it would be very misleading to a jury as to described as “mental gymnastics” why the restrictions were imposed and eventually lifted.
“I am going to give up contexts of August 2022 ofAC sanctions,” Filla said, “with the warning that she was opening the possibility of a” unicorn document ” – an important piece of evidence for the prosecution that rested on the alleged conduct of the storm after restrictions – which could change her mind before the test starts. Filla gave the prosecutors to the prosecutors till Wednesday to present any such evidence. The judge had earlier ruled on Tuesday that the parties would not be allowed to discuss the case of the Van Lun vs Treasury Department, due to which the sanctions were eventually demolished.
The rest of the storm in the limine (A type of hypocritical speed to exclude some evidence or arguments being allowed during the test) The refusal was, including a proposal to prevent the “inflammatory symptoms” of North Korea’s state approved hacking groups, Lazarus Group, and torn sales of the storm. Earlier in the day, prosecutors said they planned to present evidence that the storm has beautifully benefited from his participation in tornado cash, including alleged purchases of several houses and selling $ 12 million torn tokens after the purchase of several houses and approved the OFAC.
Prosecutors said that they do not plan to debate in the test that the storm violates the bank secrecy act (BSA) By not implementing an address-your-customer/anti-mani laundering protocol for tornado cache, only to express and not to express through his expert witness testimony what he could and did not choose.
Filla also decided to allow the government to give evidence from the phone’s fellow tornado cash developer Alexi Partsev’s phone. Dutch government allowed US Federal Investigation Bureau of Investigation (FBI) The agent to see a report of the content of Pertsev’s phone, from which the agent made his report with selected pieces of information. The defense of the Storm attempted to take out the evidence of the pertev phone, arguing that the report was impossible to cherry-picked and certified, but the judge biased with the prosecution, deciding that the report was acceptable.
After being far ahead between the parties on his respective expert witnesses, Phillah ruled that all the witnesses could testify, although he put some railings on some witnesses for both sides.
It is not yet clear whether the storm would testify in its own defense, although Filla said on Tuesday, whether they should take a stand, they would not be allowed to argue that they already had a revision safety in their work with tornado cash.
Filla said that the storm was free to discuss his trust in privacy rights, but said: “I don’t think this test should bring free speech or first amendment rights.”
A final pre-trial conference will be held on Friday at 3 pm on ET. Storm’s test has been slated to start from June 14 and is expected to last for four weeks.
