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Twister Money DAO Web site Goes Offline After Developer Alex Pertsev’s Arrest

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Twister Money DAO Web site Goes Offline After Developer Alex Pertsev’s Arrest
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  • The software program developer arrested by Dutch authorities earlier this week is Alex Pertsev, in response to The Block.
  • Twister Money DAO’s web site has gone offline because the arrest.

Dutch police arrested suspected Twister Money developer on Wednesday, 10 August. Based on The Block, the software program developer is Alex Pertsev, as confirmed by his spouse, Ksenia Malik. She continued to say that her husband had not carried out something unlawful and was shocked by this arrest. 

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Twister Money DAO web site has gone darkish because the arrest, with many customers reporting that they haven’t been in a position to entry Twister’s discord channel or web site. 

Twister Money was solely added to the Workplace of International Property Management’s record on Monday.

It seems that customers haven’t been in a position to entry the web site probably as a result of web service suppliers complying with the U.S Authorities sanctions.

Nonetheless, different strategies have been launched on the way to use TornadoCash because the ban. 

Based on the U.S Division Of The Treasury, Twister Money was used to launder greater than $7 billion price of digital forex since its creation in 2019. They’ve been linked to Lazarus Group, a Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea state-sponsored hacking group concerned within the largest recognized digital forex heist thus far. 

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