Tornado Cash 開發者 Roman Storm 的重審延至 2027 年 4 月
重點速覽
- •Roman Storm 的重審日期已從 2026 年 10 月 26 日改至 2027 年 4 月 26 日。
- •Katherine Polk Failla 法官表示，延後與 Storm 尚待裁定的無罪判決動議及其延期申請有關。
- •曼哈頓陪審團在 2025 年 8 月裁定 Storm 涉嫌經營無牌資金傳輸業務有罪，但未能就另外兩項罪名達成裁決。
- •美國檢方希望就洗錢共謀與違反制裁共謀兩項指控重審 Storm，兩項罪名的最高刑期皆為 20 年。
- •此案被廣泛視為測試軟體開發者是否會因他人濫用其程式碼而承擔刑事責任。
The retrial of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm has been postponed from Oct. 26, 2026, to April 26, 2027, as a federal judge weighs his pending motion for acquittal.
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla said in a Tuesday court order that the retrial would be adjourned “in light of” Storm’s pending motion and his related request for a continuance.
Storm’s lawyers requested the delay on Aug. 3, telling the court they needed at least 90 days after the judge rules on the acquittal motion to prepare for another trial. Prosecutors opposed an adjournment, according to the filing.
A Manhattan jury convicted Storm in August 2025 of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business, an offense carrying up to five years in prison, but the jurors failed to reach unanimous verdicts on the two remaining counts. In March, US prosecutors asked the court to schedule an October retrial on those charges: conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate US sanctions, counts that each carry maximum sentences of 20 years.
Storm subsequently asked the court to acquit him on all three charges, arguing that prosecutors failed to prove he intended to help criminals misuse Tornado Cash, a crypto-mixing service designed to obscure transaction trails on public blockchains.
The case has become a closely watched test of whether software developers can be held criminally liable for publishing code that others misuse. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022, alleging the service had been used to launder billions of dollars for cybercriminals, including North Korea’s Lazarus Group, but delisted it in March 2025 after a federal appeals court ruled that immutable smart contracts were not “property” subject to sanctions. Storm’s fellow Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was convicted of money laundering in the Netherlands in 2024, while a third developer, Roman Semenov, was sanctioned and charged alongside Storm and remains at large.
“My acquittal motion is still sitting there, undecided,” Storm said Tuesday on X. “I honestly don’t know when this ends.”
