German hosting stored in NATO bunker confronts TornadoCash-like verdict
CyberBunker, a German web hosting firm previously housed in a NATO bunker, appeals its controversial conviction for facilitating illicit transactions. Back in December 2021, eight people involved with Cyber bunker were sentenced despite the prosecutors being unable to prove that they facilitated the illicit activities of the services the company hosted. German news outlet DW then reported on the matter, highlighting that the case is “new legal ground.” Still, all eight defendants were convicted for running a “bulletproof hosting” service from a former NATO bunker in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The facility hosted illegal services that they had no proven involvement with. The service ran for nearly six years and allowed any content except child pornography and terrorism. The 62-year-old Dutchman, accused of purchasing the NATO bunker that housed the infrastructure, was sentenced to five years and nine months of prison. The remaining defendants had sentences ranging a...