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The PepperSec team built Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixer in 2019.
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In 2022, the U.S. Treasury Office sanctioned Tornado Cash for being a money laundering tool. Two days after this, Alexey Pertsev was arrested for his contribution to the platform’s codebase.
Who is Alexey Pertsev?
Alexey Pertsev’s career as a developer started in 2017 while working on smart contracts and penetration testing at Digital Security. He performed authorized attacks on websites and computer systems of companies, tracking possible cyber weaknesses in their system. The U.S. treasury department sanctioned Digital Security in 2018, stating that it provided technological support to the security service of Russia.
Alexey Pertsev joined Roman Storm and Semenov Roman to build PepperSec in 2018. They performed security checks on blockchains, websites, and mobile applications.
In 2019, the team launched Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixer that provides privacy to users transacting on
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