The Tornado Cash developer currently remains on $2 million bail in Washington state. Prosecutors arrested him on August 23, 2023, and charged him with conspiring to launder more than $1 billion in crypto, including funds moved by North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
A federal judge has kept the July 14, 2025, jury date on the calendar.
Dutch agents arrested Pertsev in Amsterdam on August 10, 2022, two days after the US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash.
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.
