According to the Daily Planet, the U.S. Department of Justice has charged Tornado Cash founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov with violating money laundering and sanctions regulations and conspiring to operate an unlicensed remittance business. The indictment stated that Tornado Cash, operated by the two, facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the sanctioned North Korean cybercrime organization Lazarus Group. Roman Storm has been arrested in Washington State and will appear in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on August 23. Roman Semenov is still at large.