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A letter filed Monday points Judge Katherine Polk Failla to the D.C. Circuit's September 25 decision affirming Roman Sterlingov's Bitcoin Fog convictions, where venue in Washington rested on an undercover agent's transactions. Storm's acquittal motion has been pending since argument in April.
The complaint says $2.76 million has sat frozen in the payments firm's operating wallet since September 2025 over a Brazilian investigation that Brazilian police say never flagged it. It follows a $42.4 million claim brought on much the same theory five weeks earlier.
Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang each face one Commodity Exchange Act count and one wire fraud count over perpetual futures bought before Robinhood announced listings. Trading derivatives rather than spot tokens is what routes the case through commodities law.
