Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev to stay detained until next year’s hearing

Detained Twister Money developer Alexsey Pertsev will spend one other three months in custody within the Netherlands, in keeping with a courtroom listening to held on Nov. 22.

Cointelegraph attended a preliminary courtroom listening to on the Palace of Justice in ’s-Hertogenbosch, which outlined the idea of the case towards Pertsev after 103 days in custody.

The prosecution outlined a broad overview of its investigation, portray Pertsev as a central determine in Twister Money’s operation earlier than Advocate WK Cheng delivered his first defensive argument.

Cheng highlighted a number of factors outlining Twister Money’s use circumstances and misconceptions round its performance.

“I’m dissatisfied in regards to the choice from the courtroom. We’ve tried to elucidate as clearly as doable what the standpoints are from the protection,” Cheng instructed Cointelegraph after the preliminary listening to.

The advocate confirmed that the primary session has been postponed to Feb. 20, 2023, and reiterated his perception that the state had introduced a one-sided interpretation of Pertsev’s involvement with Twister Money.

“We’re going to do some requests, we’re going to some investigations, issues that we have to work out to have cleared up. And we’re going to attempt to put together for the following courtroom session.”

The prosecution highlighted issues that Pertsev is a flight threat if he was to be launched earlier than the primary session regardless of a raft of guarantees from his authorized crew, which would come with surveillance in his house and weekly check-ins on the native police station.

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