Attorneys for Twister Money developer Roman Storm filed a movement asking the court docket 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) relationship again to 2023.
In keeping with a Could 16 letter from Storm’s attorneys to Choose Katherine Polk Failla, the FinCEN paperwork present that non-custodial crypto mixers don’t fall below the authorized definition of a “cash transmitting enterprise” and that prosecutors have recognized this since no less than 2023.
Regardless of having data of the FinCEN steering on crypto mixers, state prosecutors nonetheless proceeded with instances towards the Samourai Pockets builders and Twister Money, the attorneys alleged.
US prosecutors denied they withheld the proof, claiming they submitted the FinCEN communications throughout the stipulated timeframe to provide the paperwork for the protection and the court docket throughout authorized discovery.
Storm’s protection cited the identical authorized paperwork and the identical argument the Samourai Pockets developer’s attorneys posed to the court docket in a Could 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 free and, at worst, affirmatively misled this Court docket 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 say that the instances bear solely “superficial similarities” to one another, they share the core traits of cryptocurrency mixers below the legislation, thus making the FinCEN paperwork salient to dismissing the case towards Storm.
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Federal Choose Robert Pitman issued a ruling on April 28 denying the Workplace of International Belongings Management (OFAC) the power to reimpose sanctions on Twister Money — setting a authorized precedent for non-custodial mixer instances.
Regardless of this, US federal prosecutors nonetheless moved forward with the case towards Storm though the fees have been modified.
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