COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- An exercise equipment manufacturer headquartered in Columbus lost nearly half a million dollars as part of a money laundering operation based in New York. In May, federal prosecutors leveled a stack of 30 different money laundering charges against 53-year-old Brooklyn resident Aleksandr Bogomolny. After a plea agreement in October, U.S. District Court records showed that he pleaded guilty on Saturday to just two of those charges: money laundering with an interstate commerce specification, and money laundering with fraud. Six Ohio cities make U.S. News & World Report’s list of best places to live in 2025 Bogomolny had been tied to the siphoned funds through a Trojan virus that stole banking credentials on a Rogue Fitness employee's laptop, according to federal court documents. The exercise equipment manufacturer, headquartered at 1011 Cleveland Ave., reported to the FBI that it had found 78 suspicious transfers from the company's Paypal account over nearly three years. Because 90 different Rogue employees -- including the one with an infected laptop -- had access to the Paypal account and it was used for transactions with customers' banks, Bogomolny was able to hide his activity. Starting in April 2021 and running into March 2024, Bogomolny periodically pilfered $496,136, court records said. From there, the money made its way to 22 different cards, including Bogomolny's with Bank of America. When investigators looked into his account, they found he had already laundered more than $247,000 in criminal funds from December 2019 to July 2021. Separately, he had used the gambling website FanDuel to launder more money. After stealing a victim's identity, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Bogomolny would deposit criminal proceeds into a new FanDuel account, then withdraw it. He and others dropped $572,000 into the FanDuel accounts and moved $485,000 out. Investigators moved in on Bogomolny by going undercover. Agents approached him in 2023 claiming to have $20,000 from illegal drug activities, and he agreed to launder their money for a 6% fee. After wiring the agents $18,000 through multiple transactions, they asked him to launder another $50,000. When he met them to pick up the funds in April 2024, the U.S. Attorney's Office said they arrested him. When central Ohio malls, stores open on Black Friday FBI agents raided Bogomolny's home in Brooklyn, where court records said they found an Excel spreadsheet with 341,000 different entries of personal information. They included names, addresses and Social Security numbers. Bogomolny also had 10 different credit card numbers, information on four different bank accounts, and 249 gift cards containing anywhere from $5 to $250. He also had several pictures of driver's licenses and passports. Bogomolny could face up to 20 years in prison at sentencing, which federal court records did not show a scheduled date for as of Friday.