Attorneys for Twister Money developer Roman Storm filed a movement asking the courtroom to rethink the movement to dismiss the case because of the prosecution withholding exculpatory proof within the type of communications with the Monetary Crimes Enforcement Community (FinCEN) courting again to 2023.
In keeping with a Might 16 letter from Storm’s attorneys to Decide Katherine Polk Failla, the FinCEN paperwork present that non-custodial crypto mixers don’t fall underneath the authorized definition of a “cash transmitting enterprise” and that prosecutors have recognized this since not less than 2023.
Regardless of having information of the FinCEN steering on crypto mixers, state prosecutors nonetheless proceeded with cases against the Samourai Wallet developers and Twister Money, the attorneys alleged.
US prosecutors denied they withheld the evidence, claiming they submitted the FinCEN communications throughout the stipulated timeframe to provide the paperwork for the protection and the courtroom throughout authorized discovery.
Storm’s protection cited the same legal documents and the same argument the Samourai Pockets developer’s attorneys posed to the courtroom in a Might 5 authorized letter. Storm’s attorneys wrote:
“The disclosures within the Samourai case reveal that the federal government, on the very least, performed quick and unfastened and, at worst, affirmatively misled this Courtroom with its arguments about FinCEN steering when responding to the motions to dismiss and to compel discovery.”
The letter went on to argue that though the federal government continues to assert that the instances bear solely “superficial similarities” to one another, they share the core traits of cryptocurrency mixers underneath the regulation, thus making the FinCEN paperwork salient to dismissing the case in opposition to Storm.
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Federal Decide Robert Pitman issued a ruling on April 28 denying the Workplace of Overseas Belongings Management (OFAC) the flexibility to reimpose sanctions on Twister Money — setting a legal precedent for non-custodial mixer instances.
Regardless of this, US federal prosecutors nonetheless moved ahead with the case against Storm though the fees have been modified.
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