Alexey Pertsev, a Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, was convicted of money laundering in the Netherlands in May 2024 and sentenced to a 64-month prison term

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Pertsev, who was convicted in a Dutch court on money laundering charges last year, was given a 64-month prison sentence. If Storm is found guilty on all charges, then the 35-year-old software developer faces up to 45 years behind bars.

Alexey Pertsev, another Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, has already been found guilty of money laundering in the Netherlands and sentenced to more than five years in prison. Roman Semenov, the other developer named in the same indictment as Storm, was still at large at the time of publication.