Once a murder took place there is no doubt that there was a crime and more or less which crime and the suspect is ... well - suspected. For a financial crime the work consists in determining if there was a crime. And if so which one.
In another jurisdiction, the tornado cash developer is arrested almost immediately after the system was sanctioned. Still held under arrest as of today. For writing code? Might there be more to it but it really makes you think specially with all those puff articles stating that SBF was some robin hood that was poised to save the world until some bad luck strikes his plans.
Imposing those sanctions would be preceded by an investigation. The fact that only one dev got arrested is probably indicative that it’s more than just “for writing code”.
I want to see him in jail just as much as you but I’d counter point that:
1. No bodily harm occurred in this act
2. Murder trials are usually easier to get evidence from
It’s a lot easier to do a second murder than a second FTX.
In complicated murder cases it can take decades to get an arrest, too. For example, a murder in 1963 and a conviction in 2001: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/thomas-blanton-dead.ht...