Crypto News | U.S. authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind a multi-million darknet-System. BTC mixing service.
For approximately a decade, Bitcoin Fog has enabled users to conceal the origin and destination of its users’ crypto assets. However, the Internal Revenue Service is charging Russian-Swedish citizen, Roman Sterlingov, with laundering more than 1.2 million Bitcoin worth $336 million while serving as the website’s administrator.
Sterlingov founded one Darknet Service in late 2011 under a Japanese pseudonym meaning “Happy New Year, '' spruiking Bitcoin Fog as eliminating any chance of authorities “finding your payments and making it impossible to prove any connection between a deposit and a withdrawal inside our service." This it's just her slogan.
He takes a fee from her clients and in one occasion it’s possible to know now some undercover IRS agents use her illegal service only to try or check him and the transaction it's processed by Sterlingov without a single Message or reply.