Online reports, Cointelegraph reported that Roman Storm, co-founder and developer of Tornado Cash cryptocurrency hybrid service, will appear in a New York court on July 14, facing money laundering and conspiracy charges. Less than two weeks before the U.S. criminal trial, Storm said in a video interview that his legal team intends to address charges at trial that he personally profited from illicit funds through his role in Tornado Cash. However, he declined to say whether he would testify in his defense, saying there is "no 100% answer yet to the charges of money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission agency and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions." I may or may not (testify)." Storm has been indicted by U.S. authorities since 2023, about a year after the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned addresses related to Tornado Cash. Government agencies said the hybrid service facilitated the laundering of cryptocurrencies stolen by North Korean hackers.