Alexey Pertsev, Tornado Cash developer, found guilty of money laundering in 2024, is ready to be released from prison on Friday to prepare for his appeal, he said in a post on X.
Dear Friends, Friday, February 7 at. 10 I want to be free! It is not real freedom, but it is better than the prison. Today, a Dutch court suspended my prior detention under the condition of electronic monitoring. This gives me a chance to work on my appeal and fight for …
– Alexey Pertesv (@alex_pertsev) February 6, 2025
The 31-year-old Russian citizen was sentenced to 64 months in a Dutch prison last May, after an indictment said that Pertsev had “a habit of committing money laundering” and should suspect illegal transactions on the platform.
Tornado Cash is a coin mixture protocol that allows users to privately send tokens to another wallet. It achieves privacy by collecting funds together and mixing them until the origin is unclear.
The protocol is sanctioned by the US government, which claims Tornado Cash was used by the North Korean hackers Lazarus Group.
