The Fiscal Info and Investigation Service (FIOD) has confirmed that the arrested Twister Money developer was suspected of being concerned within the hiding of legal monetary transactions and facilitating cash laundering.
On Aug. 12, Alexey Pertsev was arrested within the Netherlands in connection to Twister Money. A non-profit coverage advocacy group, DeFi Fund Training reached out to the authority to substantiate the premise for the arrest.
In response, the FIOD said that the developer was arrested for his involvement in facilitating cash laundering by way of the Twister Money protocol.
FIOD simply adopted up with extra info on the Twister Money developer who was arrested final week.
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The company famous that its investigation in opposition to the developer was impartial of the US sanction. It nonetheless refused to call the arrested developer.
The Block had reported Aug. 12 that the arrested Twister Money developer was Alexey Pertsev, in accordance with his spouse Ksenia Malik.
Twister Money on the run
FIOD’s arrest of the developer and the US sanction has left the Twister Money ecosystem in disarray.
Strain from the sanction compelled the DAO to close down operations on Aug. 13.
In an unique report with CryptoSlate, a group member confirmed that the multi-sig was deleted after DAO funds had been moved to the governance contracts. Commenting on why the protocol needed to take the route, the Twister Money member said:
“To maintain members protected and keep away from authorized points” because the state of affairs is “harmful for all devs,” even these outdoors the Twister Money ecosystem.
No going again for the US Treasury
The US Treasury had earlier said it could pursue in spite of everything crypto mixing protocols with no Know Your Buyer (KYC) modalities. Crypto mixing protocols by design are decentralized, making it troublesome to implement a KYC mannequin.
The US Treasury believes that unregulated mixers within the crypto business will undermine the nationwide safety of the U.S. and is aggressively sanctioning protocols suspected of facilitating illicit funds.
“[The] Treasury will proceed to research the usage of mixers for illicit functions and use its authorities to answer illicit financing dangers within the digital foreign money ecosystem.”