Department of Justice charged Roman Storm with conspiring to commit money laundering, evade U.S. sanctions, and transmit funds derived from crime

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The U.S Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said on Thursday it would not move forward with a part of Storm's charges ahead of a July 14 trial, but said they plan to proceed with charges related to money laundering, some related to unlicensed money transmitting and another on a conspiracy to violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a court filing.

"The Government is proceeding to try Storm on willfully conspiring to commit money laundering, sanctions evasion, and transporting and transmitting funds he knew were criminally derived," a DOJ spokesperson told Decrypt.