Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm released on bail, lawyer says
Roman Storm’s lawyer Brian Klein said the developer was released on bail on Aug. 24, the day after the U.S. DOJ announced the charges related to money-laundering and other alleged violations. Roman Storm, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash who was arrested on money-laundering and other charges on Aug. 23, was released on bail soon after he was detained by the United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ), his lawyer said. Storm’s lawyer Brian Klein took to X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 24 to announce that Storm has been released on bail. Klein noted that he still remains “very disappointed” about the fact that the prosecutors charged the develop er just because he helped to develop software. He added: “Their novel legal theory has dangerous implications for all software developers.” The bail came the next day after the U.S. DOJ announced the arrest of Storm alongside the charges against Tornado Cash founders, Storm and Roman Semenov, on Aug. 23. The U.S. ...