Samourai Wallet的律師指控聯邦檢察官抑制了該公司不需要許可證的建議

Samourai Wallet的律師指控聯邦檢察官抑制了該公司在向加密貨幣混合服務收取高管之前不需要許可證的建議

Lawyers for Samourai Wallet have accused federal prosecutors of suppressing advice from the US Treasury that the crypto mixing service didn't need a license.

Samourai Wallet的律師指責聯邦檢察官抑制了美國財政部的建議，即加密貨幣混合服務不需要許可。

Samourai co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill's lawyers said in a May 5 letter that, six months before they charged the pair, FinCEN representatives told prosecutors that, under its guidance, the Samourai Wallet app would not qualify as a 'Money Services Business' requiring a FinCEN license.

薩穆萊（Samourai）聯合創始人基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·希爾（William Hill）的律師在5月5日的一封信中說，在他們指控這對夫婦的六個月之前，Fincen代表告訴檢察官，在其指導下，Samourai Whallet App不符合需要Fincen許可證的“貨幣服務業務”。

“Shockingly, six months later, the same prosecutors criminally charged Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill with operating just such a business without a FinCEN license,” the lawyers added.

律師補充說：“令人震驚的是，六個月後，同一名檢察官犯有刑事指控的基恩·羅德里格斯（Keonne Rodriguez）和威廉·希爾（William Hill）的經營權，沒有執行此類業務。”

They claimed that prosecutors were required to share their discussions with FinCEN over Samourai two weeks after they unsealed charges, making the deadline May 8 last year, but instead “suppressed this information for over a year, disclosing it only on April 1, 2025.”

他們聲稱，檢察官被要求在未密封指控兩週後與Fincen分享他們的討論，去年5月8日截止日期，但“抑制了一年以上，僅在2025年4月1日披露了這些信息”。

Prosecutors charged Samourai CEO Rodriguez and its technology chief Hill with conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and money laundering conspiracy in February 2024, unsealing the charges and arresting the pair in April that year.

檢察官指控薩穆萊（Samourai）首席執行官羅德里格斯（Rodriguez）及其技術酋長山（Conspiracy）在2024年2月在未經許可的貨幣傳輸商業和洗錢陰謀上經營貨幣，並於當年4月取消了指控並逮捕了這對。

Samourai's mixing service took crypto from multiple users and blended it together to hide its origins. The government alleged the platform helped with over $2 billion in illegal transactions and facilitated over $100 million worth of money laundering transactions from online black markets and scammers.

Samourai的混合服務吸引了來自多個用戶的加密貨幣，並將其混合在一起以隱藏其起源。政府聲稱該平台提供了超過20億美元的非法交易，並促進了超過1億美元的在線黑市和騙子的洗錢交易。

Rodriguez and Hill both pleaded not guilty.

羅德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希爾（Hill）都不不認罪。

In the letter, their lawyers said prosecutors shared details of a call with Kevin O’Connor, chief of FinCEN’s Virtual Assets and Emerging Technology Section in the Enforcement and Compliance Division, and Policy Division staffer Lorena Valente.

他們的律師在信中說，檢察官與Fincen的虛擬資產和新興技術部門負責執法和合規部以及政策部工作人員Lorena Valente的凱文·奧康納（Kevin O'Connor）分享了電話的詳細信息。

According to an email from one of the prosecutors summarizing the call, FinCEN said that “because Samourai does not take 'custody' of the cryptocurrency by possessing the private keys to any addresses where the cryptocurrency is stored, that would strongly suggest that Samourai is NOT acting as an MSB [money services business].”

根據一位檢察官的一封電子郵件總結了電話，Fincen說：“因為Samourai並沒有將私人鑰匙掌握到存儲加密貨幣的任何地址，這不會強烈表明Samourai並不是一家MSB [貨幣服務業務]。”

The email said O'Connor and Valente agreed that the government could try to argue that Samourai functionally controlled the crypto, “but that has never been addressed in the guidance, and so it could be a difficult argument” for prosecutors.

該電子郵件說，奧康納（O'Connor）和瓦倫特（Valente）同意，政府可以試圖爭辯說，薩穆萊（Samourai）在功能上控制了加密貨幣，“但這在指導中從未解決過，因此對於檢察官來說可能是一個困難的論點。”

Samourai's lawyers asked the court for a hearing “to determine the circumstances surrounding the Government’s late disclosure” and to administer a remedy.

Samourai的律師要求法院舉行聽證會“確定政府延遲披露的情況”並進行補救措施。

Samourai to renew dismissal bid if case goes on

如果案件繼續前進

Rodriguez and Hill's lawyers said that, using this latest information, they would again ask for the charges to be dismissed, arguing they lacked fair notice and “understood they were acting lawfully.”

羅德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希爾（Hill）的律師說，使用此最新信息，他們將再次要求駁回指控，並認為他們缺乏公平通知，並“理解他們正在合法行事”。

Prosecutors and Samourai asked the court for more time to consider potentially dismissing the case after the Justice Department rolled back its crypto enforcement.

檢察官和薩穆萊（Samourai）在司法部撤銷其加密執法後，請法院有更多一些時間考慮可能駁回此案。

Rodriguez and Hill bid to dismiss the case in early April, arguing it should be dropped as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an April 7 memo that the Justice Department wouldn’t prosecute crypto mixers for “unwitting violations of regulations.”

羅德里格斯（Rodriguez）和希爾（Hill）在4月初駁回此案，認為應該將其撤銷，因為副檢察長托德·布蘭奇（Todd Blanche）在4月7日的備忘錄中說，司法部不會起訴加密貨幣架“不願違反法規”。

In the latest letter, their lawyers said if the government "were to resist the Blanche Memo’s directive and push forward," then they would bid to dismiss as "if they were not money transmitters under FinCEN’s guidance, then they could not possibly be prosecuted for not having a license."

他們的律師在最新信中說，如果政府“抵制布蘭奇備忘錄的指令並推動”，那麼他們將願意駁回為“如果他們不是芬本的指導下的貨幣發射機，那麼他們就不可能因沒有許可而被起訴。”