Обвинители Samourai Wallet отказались отозвать дело вопреки распоряжениям

cryptonews.ruPublished on 2024-07-10Last updated on 2025-05-10

Прокуроры в деле анонимного криптокошелька Samourai Wallet отвергли обвинения защиты в сокрытии важной информации и отказались отзывать иск, продолжив затяжное судебное разбирательство. Об этом сообщил руководитель отдела политики в Bitcoin Policy Institute Зак Шапиро.

Further Update: @SDNYnews declines to drop charges against Samourai Wallet developers and responds to the defense's Brady Letter that:

"[t]here is no basis for a hearing, nor is there anything to remedy: the disclosure itself shows that the Government has not violated Brady. The… https://t.co/vE2hiNGEha
— Zack Shapiro (@zackbshapiro) May 9, 2025

В апреле 2024 года основателей сервиса Кеонна Родригеса и Уильяма Лонергана Хилла арестовали по обвинениям в содействии отмыванию $100 млн преступных доходов. По данным властей, с 2015 года кошелек обработал анонимные транзакции на сумму $2 млрд.

29 апреля Родригеса выпустили под залог в $1 млн, обеспеченный недвижимостью в Пенсильвании, а также подписями его жены и еще одного члена семьи. Он не признал себя виновным в ведении нелицензированного платежного бизнеса и отмывании преступных доходов.

Хилла отпустили в июле под залог в $2 млн, из которых $200 000 представлены наличными, а оставшаяся сумма в виде его семейного дома в Нью-Йорке.

Адвокаты разработчиков подчеркнули, что даже Google не считала Samourai Wallet противозаконным. По их словам, в мае 2015 года корпорация разрешила размещение приложения кошелька для смартфонов Android на своем маркетплейсе.

«[FinCEN] давно ясно дала понять, что пиринговые приложения вроде Samourai Wallet […], не считаются сервисами по переводу денег. Тот факт, что Хилл […] предлагал приложение открыто в течение девяти лет, свидетельствует, что [правительство], как и сенаторы, также считали его законным», — заявила сторона защиты.

Защита также сравнила «агрессивное преследование» разработчика с «претензиями к Apple за киберпреступления, совершенные через MacBook».

Согласно письму адвокатов основателей Samourai Wallet от 5 мая 2025 года, сторона обвинения также скрыла важную для суда информацию.

Just revealed: FinCEN explicitly told prosecutors Samourai Wallet wasn't a money transmitter due to its non-custodial design; DOJ prosecuted developers anyway, suppressing exculpatory evidence for a year. pic.twitter.com/nxyDrXQGr8
— Zack Shapiro (@zackbshapiro) May 5, 2025

В августе 2023 года представители FinCEN сообщили прокурорам Минюста США, что сервис не является провайдером денежных услуг и не нуждается в лицензии из-за своей некастодиальной природы. По словам защиты, через полгода те же самые прокуроры обвинили Родригеза и Хилла в работе без лицензии.

Сторона обвинения не раскрывала информацию о неформальной консультации с регулятором больше 12 месяцев — до 1 апреля 2025 года — и поделилась ей только после специального запроса. Адвокаты указали на потенциальное нарушение положений о сокрытии улик.

Защита также ходатайствовала о закрытии дела, сославшись на распоряжения заместителя генпрокурора Тодда Бланша о прекращении преследования криптобирж, миксеров и офлайн-кошельков. Суд пока не вынес решения.

Согласно сообщению Шапиро, сотрудники Минюста отвергли обвинения в сокрытии информации. По их словам все «существенные сообщения» раскрыли «за несколько месяцев» до суда, а ходатайство о закрытии дела должно быть отклонено.

Кроме того, вопрос лицензирования Samourai Wallet касается лишь одного из двух выдвинутых против разработчиков обвинений — работы в качестве провайдера денежных услуг. Пункт об отмывании средств остался бы без изменений вне зависимости от раскрытия этой информации, считают в Минюсте.

Напомним, в апреле суд запретил Управлению по контролю за иностранными активами Минфина США возобновлять или накладывать повторные санкции против сервиса Tornado Cash.

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