The founder of a cryptocurrency mixing service has been sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for laundering tens of millions of dollars from a darknet platform that sold illegal drugs.
Roman Sterlingov, a Russian-Swiss national, was also ordered to forfeit $395 million and relinquish his interest in a Bitcoin Fog wallet containing Bitcoin valued at over $103 million. Sterlingov was convicted in March on charges connected to what prosecutors described as one of the “largest and longest-running money laundering services.”