Alexey Pertsev, the developer of crypto privacy mixer Tornado Cash, will be released from jail next week and await trial at home, according to a report from Blockworks. 

The news reportedly comes from Eléonore Blanc, Pertsev’s wife, who claimed over Telegram that the developer would be coming home next week.

Pertsev was arrested in Amsterdam in August 2022 shortly after the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, creating unprecedented restrictions against the development and use of smart contract code.

The developer was later denied bail and forced to remain imprisoned for months, despite no formal charges being laid at the time. However, Pertsev was found to have worked at a Russian firm called Digital Security, which had been flagged for providing support to the nation’s FSB.

(by Andrew Throuvalas)