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title: "Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/dutch-court-sentences-tornado-cash-co-founder-to-5-years-in-prison-for-money-laundering-sz2wzwffl
source_url: https://thehackernews.com/2024/05/dutch-court-sentences-tornado-cash-co.html
type: article
source: "The Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-15T08:49:32.973Z
updated: 2024-05-15T08:49:32.232Z
tags: ["crypto", "privacy", "decentralized"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
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# Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering

**[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Dutch court sentences a co-founder of Tornado Cash to 5 years in prison for money laundering. The defendant is also expected to forfeit cryptocurrency assets and a Porsche car. Tornado Cash is a decentralized crypto mixer that allowed users to mask the blockchain transaction trail. The case has sparked a debate about the criminalization of anonymity tools.

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Tags: [#crypto](https://daily.dev/tags/crypto), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#decentralized](https://daily.dev/tags/decentralized)

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