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> And the government interprets sanctions law extraterritorially so you're not safe in other countries either. It does not; these sanctions only apply to US Pe
by miracle2k 3y ago
> And the government interprets sanctions law extraterritorially so you're not safe in other countries either.
It does not; these sanctions only apply to US Persons. Secondary sanctions mean that the Treasury can additional designate non US-Persons for breaches of the primary sanctions, but that is a heavy-handed tool and unlikely to happen to people who merely use Tornado Cash; regardless, no law was broken by such a person.
- from 3y agoTurkish guy accused of violating sanctions on Iran (no US bank account, only US nexus was that some of the banks he used had correspondent accounts with New York banks): https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-alerts/united-states-of-america-v-reza-zarrab-the-long-reach-of-us-sanctions-may-have-just-gotten-longer https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-alerts/united-s... Lebanese man extradited from Morocco for violating sanctions on himself (!): see ruling justifying this on https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-tajideen-1 https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-tajideen-1 It is trivial for the government to say that you directly or indirectly used some service operated by American company and therefore you are subject to American jurisdiction. Yes it’s unlikely to happen to any small time Tornado Cash user.