Detained Twister Money developer Alexsey Pertsev will spend one other three months in custody within the Netherlands, based on a court docket listening to held on Nov. 22.
Cointelegraph attended a preliminary court docket listening to on the Palace of Justice in ’s-Hertogenbosch, which outlined the premise of the case towards Pertsev after 103 days in custody.
The prosecution outlined a broad overview of its investigation, portray Pertsev as a central determine in Twister Money’s operation earlier than Advocate WK Cheng delivered his first defensive argument.
Cheng highlighted a number of factors outlining Twister Money’s use circumstances and misconceptions round its performance.
“I’m disenchanted concerning the resolution from the court docket. We’ve tried to clarify as clearly as doable what the standpoints are from the protection,” Cheng instructed Cointelegraph after the preliminary listening to.
The advocate confirmed that the primary session has been postponed to Feb. 20, 2023, and reiterated his perception that the state had introduced a one-sided interpretation of Pertsev’s involvement with Twister Money.
“We’re going to do some requests, we’re going to some investigations, issues that we have to work out to have cleared up. And we’re going to attempt to put together for the following court docket session.”
The prosecution highlighted considerations that Pertsev is a flight threat if he was to be launched earlier than the primary session regardless of a raft of guarantees from his authorized workforce, which would come with surveillance in his house and weekly check-ins on the native police station.
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