Twister Money developer Roman Storm’s trial adopted the legislation and the decide overseeing his case mustn’t take into account acquitting him of all prices, federal prosecutors mentioned.
In a post-trial submitting dated final Wednesday, attorneys with the Division of Justice’s Southern District of New York workplace pushed again towards Storm’s movement for acquittal, saying that they had proved with ample proof that he had constructed and managed Twister Money, the crypto mixing service that was as soon as sanctioned by the U.S. because of its use by North Korean and different actors.
On the finish of September, Storm’s attorneys filed a post-trial movement arguing that District Choose Katherine Polk Failla ought to acquit him of all prices — not simply the conspiracy to function an unlicensed cash transmitter cost he was convicted on, but additionally the 2 deadlocked prices, conspiring to commit cash laundering and conspiring to violate sanctions legislation. In that procedural submitting, the protection argued that the prosecutors didn’t have ample proof to really help a conviction on any cost.
In Wednesday’s submitting, prosecutors said that their proof was certainly ample to display that Storm was a co-founder of Twister Money and had constructed options he knew would assist cybercriminals.
“The defendant’s management was neither passive nor incidental: he and his co-conspirators modified the UI roughly 250 occasions between February 26, 2020 and August 8, 2022, (Tr. 1063-64, 1078-79), controlling the means by which the overwhelming majority of customers accessed the Twister Money Service, (Tr. 1049, 1182). Through the charged time interval, at the least 96 p.c of Twister Money customers accessed the Twister Money service via the UI. (Tr. 1049, 1182),” the submitting mentioned, referencing parts of the transcript from the 4-week trial.
The submitting additionally argued that prosecutors had sufficient proof to help their conspiracy to commit cash laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions prices, and the decide mustn’t acquit on both of these.
Storm’s attorneys have till this upcoming Wednesday to file a response.
