Trace error and trial of the Roman storm locked by mistray alcohol

As Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s trial continues in the second week, experts at Crypto Forensics raised questions about the reliability of the evidence presented by the prosecutors.

Independent investigators condemn clumsy pursuit efforts, the use of reports from dangerous forensic companies.

Seek misunderstanding after “musing” efforts to track funds

After Storm’s lawyer David Patton called out for Mistory at the end of Monday’s session, blockchain detectives dig deep into what they presented as laundry for fraud victims’ funds through a tornado cash mixer.

The validity of the testimony presented by Katie Lynn, the government’s first witness, was scrutinized over the weekend by Taylor Monaghan of Metamusch.

That’s what Monaghan’s analysis was like. Approved by fellow investigator ZACHXBT.

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Monaghan has identified Lin’s transactions and traced them to the “Instaswapper” service, which is used to hop between blockchains.

She says that it is “completely unacceptable” to claim that they have continued their ongoing tracing funds, as the ongoing transaction (later link to tornado cash) is simply the result of “unknown inputs from another chain.”

Coinbase’s Connor Grogan, who traces forgotten funds in his free time, also analyzed the transaction.

Although the transaction hash was provided as evidence that appears to be clearly unrelated to the Lin case, it suspects that the researchers confused the distributed exchange swap as a transfer between individuals.

Reports from the outrage show that even one prosecutor’s blockchain expert could not directly link the victim’s transaction to tornado cash.

Prosecutors argue that the “expert” witness, “IRS Agent George… will testify about some short hops to tornado cash.”

Monaghan is clearly confident in her traces and doubts her testimony.It would be explicit perjury or career suicide. ”

Dodgy Crypto Recovery Company has been closed by the Fed

When X user William J. Jones considered retrieval, further doubts about the credibility of the prosecutor’s evidence base say she hired her to track the funds.

Jones noted that Payback Ltd is one of three “cryptocurrency recovery services” whose website was seized by the FBI last year.

The press release explains that these companies “often have been extremely successful in collecting victim funds, but have no track record of doing so.”

In a request that “substantial advance fees and… the committee needs to collect funds,” they effectively “Deceive victims of cryptocurrency fraud. ”

Prosecutors accused of a dirty fight

The Storm case has made the developer a martial artist who advocates privacy and open source software.

For many, it feels like an unnecessary show of force, especially after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions on tornado cash as “overstepping” and ordered a reversal in January.

Prosecutors have been accused of fighting dirty things in preparation for the trial, and have tried to eliminate some of the defense’s “expert” witnesses, claiming they will do so. “Wasting time” and “confusing the ju umpire.”

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In the first week, Coindsk reporter Danny Nelson denounced the government in a “weaponization” telegram message from the Coindesk Tonad Cash Group Chat, which was misunderstood as evidence of tornado cash developers discussing how to wash stolen funds.

In yesterday’s session, FBI agent Decapua rejected the use of VPNs as something “regular people” wouldn’t use.

Developer and Security Alliance member Pascal Caversaccio warns against this type of characterization.

Second, the prosecution plan sneaks into the relevant testimony we know (KYC) after both the discussion of both KYC and money laundering. It is prohibited in pretrial lawsuitsaccording to Rage’s L0LAL33TZ.

Despite the continued use of mixers to wash stolen funds, even during trial, Storm continued to distance himself from such activities.