The hacker, who stole $50 million from the “Next Generation Stablecoin Neobank” Infini earlier this year, is actively washing millions of tornado cash despite the continued unfolding of US trials against Crypto Mixer and its founder Roman Storm.
Approximately $10 million worth of ether (ETH) stolen from Infini was sent to Tornado Cash today, with over 1,700 ETH being replaced by around 5.9 million DAIs.
This is another example of cybercriminals washing their funds in a Crypto mixer built with privacy in mind. One hacker behind separate $12 million exploit Some of the stolen funds were sent to Storm’s legal funds. He had to refuse.
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The trial against Storm has entered the fourth day as US prosecutors try to persuade the ju judge. Some of them are already shedding tears and are guilty of conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate economic sanctions.
In today’s session, Inther City Press reported that an FBI forensic accountant was questioned about legal costs, a special FBI agent was questioned about the assault on Storm’s home, and that Neon Tornado Cash Sign was turned on in court.
One witness claimed a hard drive found on Storm’s property. “Cleaning” Ethereum with a photo of the washing machineboth are references to money laundering.
Telegram messages that argued that the defense should dismiss it as evidence were also raised in question.
Read more: US prosecutors say tornado cash witnesses “wasting ju trial time”
Prosecutors have already quizzed various witnesses suffering from hacking, theft and more, and have seen their codes move through tornado cash.
This includes convicted NFT Ragpurer and CTO of Axie Infinity. Hacked for $600 million.
Storm’s opening statement attempted to communicate to the ju apprentice the idea that all your financial transactions are airing to the public and the dangers of lack of financial privacy.
The outrage reports that prosecutors did not take this well and requested a motion to prevent his team from discussing financial privacy and the crypto-inducing incident that could be related to lack of it.
He allegedly argued that these testimonies and other criminal acts were “inflammatory and not within the scope of expert testimony and seeks to be nullified by the Ju Court.”
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