Man sentenced for laundering $500K from Columbus business

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A New York man was sentenced to prison Friday for laundering nearly half a million dollars from a Columbus business, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Ohio.

Alex Bogomolny, 53, was sentenced to 46 months in prison, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit and committing money laundering in November.

The charges stem from 2021, when an employee of Rogue Fitness had their computer infected with a malicious banking Trojan known by the FBI to steal banking credentials, officials said.

The money that was stolen was transferred to 22 different card numbers, including a Bank of America card belonging to Bogomolny.

Prosecutors said he was also found to have nearly $250,000 in other laundered money through his account between December 2019 and July 2021.

Bogomolny and other unnamed individuals would steal a victim's identity and create a FanDuel account, where the money would be deposited and later withdrawn.

In 2023, Bogomolny met with undercover FBI agents and agreed to launder $20,000 in exchange for a 6% fee. $18,800 of the original $20,000 was sent back to the undercover agents in multiple transactions. He later said he would accept another $50,000 from the agents.

After accepting the money from the agents in April 2024, Bogomolny was arrested.

During a search warrant at Bogomolny's home in Brooklyn, detectives found more than 341,000 identifiers like names, addresses, birthdates, and social security numbers, along with images of driver's licenses, U.S. passports and full credit card numbers.