Bitcoin Fog mixer founder Roman Sterlingov was found guilty of facilitating money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmission business and other offenses.
However, Sterlingov argued that he was only a user of the mixer, not its operator.
Approximately 1.2 million BTC was transacted through Bitcoin Fog, which mostly came from darknet platforms.
The evidence used to convict Sterling showed that the “vast majority” of the cryptocurrencies he deposited on exchanges were from bitcoin clusters linked to Bitcoin Fog.