Tornado Cash Co-Founder Roman Semenov Added to OFAC Sanctions List

Tornado Cash Co-Founder Roman Semenov Added to US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions List on Wednesday.

OFAC has included Roman Semenov's email address and eight Ethereum wallet addresses in the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN).

In a prior development, the US Department of Justice charged Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov with violations of money laundering and sanctions regulations, as well as conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The indictment stated that the Tornado Cash operation facilitated over $1 billion in money laundering transactions and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the sanctioned North Korean cybercrime group, Lazarus Group.

Roman Storm has been arrested in the state of Washington and is scheduled to appear for trial in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on August 23rd. Roman Semenov remains at large.