Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levin said that the judicial persecution of software developers create a dangerous precedent that threaten crypto industry and innovation as a whole. If law enforcement officers begin to pursue developers for creating tools that may not be used by attackers, technological innovations will not appear in the world, the top manager fears.
“Why do programmers create revolutionary software, if criminal prosecution threatens for this?” -Waithouse-Levin asked the question.
Last week, the assistant to the prosecutor general of the US Ministry of Justice Matthew Galeotti said that writing code is not considered a crime.
“SOLANA POLICY Institute is looking forward to when these statements are implemented in practice. And in the meantime, we will continue to support Storm and Pertsev-along with other representatives of the crypto industry, protruding them, ”said Whitehouse-Levin.
In early August, the Court of the Southern District of New York found Roman Storm guilty of the operation of an unlicensed money transfer service, simultaneously justifying it on charges of violating the international sanctions regime. As for Alexei Pertsev, earlier the Netherlands court sentenced him to 64 months of prison for assisting $ 1.2 billion through Tornado Cash. In May, Pertsev appealed the court decision.
Source: Bits
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