Alexey Pertsev faced criminal prosecution in the Netherlands for allegedly facilitating money laundering through Tornado Cash and was convicted of money laundering in May 2024

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May 14, 2025

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Judges tried him on March 25 and 26, 2024, and sentenced him to 64 months for facilitating the laundering of roughly $1.2 billion on May 14. He left prison under electronic monitoring on February 7, 2025, while his appeal proceeds in s-Hertogenbosch.

Alexey Pertsev, the third individual connected to Tornado Cash, was arrested in the Netherlands in 2022 shortly after the US sanctioned addresses tied to the mixing protocol. In May 2024, he was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to more than five years in prison.

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Week 20 of 2025