A 53-year-old resident of the Predgorny District of the region placed mining equipment in an outbuilding in the yard of his house, and exchanged the mined cryptocurrency for rubles, according to the materials of the initiated case.
The special device for connecting equipment bypassing the meter was purchased by the Stavropol resident on an classifieds website, investigators say. Over three years, the network company estimated its damage at 1 million rubles.
A criminal case has been initiated against the owner of the crypto farm under the article on "causing property damage by deception" (Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, up to two years in a colony and a fine of up to 80,000 rubles).
Stavropol Krai is not included in the list of Russian regions where a ban on mining is in effect. The ban is in effect in neighboring Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Chechnya. As well as in Moscow and the Moscow Region, in certain territories of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Irkutsk and Kursk regions.
Previously in Perm, a criminal case was initiated against the owner of a mining farm after an inspection conducted on the initiative of energy companies. According to estimates by "Rosseti Ural", illegal electricity consumption caused damage to the grid company of more than 6 million rubles.
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