The U.S. government continues to pursue criminal charges against developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) delisted Tornado Cash from its Specially Designated Nationals list in March 2025

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Despite removing Tornado Cash from the sanctions list, the U.S. government continues to pursue criminal money laundering charges against Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov. Storm’s trial is slated to begin June 14 in New York.
Despite the fact that this appeal has been dropped and Tornado Cash is no longer on the OFAC sanctions list, the creators of the technology are still on facing criminal charges. Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm is scheduled to appear in federal court in the Southern District of New York on Monday, July 14, 2025.
Despite OFAC’s about-face, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm still faces prosecution. His trial is expected to begin in a week in New York, while Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was let out on supervised release in February in the Netherlands.