The mining site operated for four years, from January 2021 to January 2025. The farm was set up in an industrial workshop rented by the accused's wife. To house the equipment, a special container and soundproof boxes were used, containing at least 39 units of mining hardware and auxiliary devices.
The farm for cryptocurrency mining was connected directly to a transformer substation, bypassing metering devices and without a contract with the energy supply organization, the prosecution claims. As a result, the actual payer for the electricity turned out to be the landlord, who, the investigation believes, was not even aware of what was happening in the workshop of his industrial facility.
The defendant is charged with causing property damage through fraud or breach of trust on an especially large scale. He faces up to five years of forced labor or the same term in a penal colony.
In Bodaybo, industrial mining is permitted, but as throughout Russia, only on the condition of registration in the state register of miners.
Recently, in the city of Rossosh in the Voronezh region, employees of the companies "Voronezhenergo" and "Rosseti Center" discovered a secret mining farm consisting of 110 devices. The damage to the energy companies is estimated at approximately 5.9 million rubles.
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