The U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm is set to move forward, as District Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled during a telephonic hearing on Thursday. Judge Failla denied Storm’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges, indicating she would provide a detailed explanation for her decision in a forthcoming order. At the time of the hearing, she was also addressing a motion related to the release of certain materials.

Storm, along with fellow developer Roman Semenov, was indicted last August on three charges connected to their work with Tornado Cash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency mixer. The charges include conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, and violating the International Emergency Powers Act. Prosecutors allege that Tornado Cash and its developers knowingly facilitated the laundering of over $1 billion, including significant amounts linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

Storm has pleaded not guilty to all charges. In a motion to dismiss filed in March, his defense argued that he only wrote the code for Tornado Cash and that any illicit activities that ensued were beyond his control. Additionally, Judge Failla rejected another of Storm’s motions, which sought to compel the DOJ to produce documents from Dutch authorities related to the recent conviction of another Tornado Cash developer, Alexey Pertsev. The judge deemed the defense’s arguments regarding the relevance of these documents too speculative.

The trial for Roman Storm is scheduled to begin on December 2 and is expected to last approximately two weeks. If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum potential sentence of 45 years in prison.