The non -profit organization Ethereum Foundation announced that she donated $ 500,000 for the legal protection of the co -founder and developer of the Tornado Cash service of Roman Storm.

Representatives of the fund promised to additionally collect at least $ 750,000 in the form of donated from the community.

“Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime,” explained in Ethereum Foundation.

Roman Storm is accused of conspiracy to launder money, bypassing international sanctions and unlicensed business transfer through the Tornado Cash service. The trial should begin on July 14. The programmer plans to collect with the support of the community to pay lawyers $ 2 million.

In January, the US Court of Appeal of the Fifth District of the United States marked a ban on the work of a cryptomixer. At the end of April, the US Federal Court forbade the Office for Monitoring Foreign Assets of the US Treasury (OFAC) to resume a ban on work Tornado Cash.

Earlier, federal judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected the requirement to protect the novel of Storm on the revision of evidence provided by the US Ministry of Justice.