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The FSB Directorate for the Republic of Khakassia announced a major theft of equipment for mining cryptocurrencies. The volume of the theft amounted to 63 million rubles, and three employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are considered suspects.
Two firefighters together with a certain individualAn entrepreneur placed a container on the territory of the Rail Abakan Wagonmash enterprise last spring. The container was connected to power grids and equipment for cryptocurrency mining, obtained from a third party, was deployed, law enforcement officers say.
Fall in cryptocurrency market and incomeled to debt for equipment placement. Under the pretext of repaying the debt, the organizers of a kind of mining hotel decided in April 2022 to take the entire farm to another location. In total, 287 devices were stolen for a total amount of over 63 million rubles, the FSB assures.
The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Abakan opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 330 of the Criminal Code “Arbitrariness”. Operational search measures are now being carried out in order to establish all the circumstances of the case.
In June, the organizers of a mining hotel in the Irkutsk region took out
all the equipment and disappeared. The damage from the theft of devices exceeded 100 million rubles.
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