Dagestan miners stole electricity on 158 million rubles – Bits Media

Over the past year and a half in the Republic of Dagestan, illegal miners managed to steal electricity in the amount 158 million rubles, assures the company "Rosseti North Caucasus".

The main office of the network company said, that one of the largest farms was found in city ​​of Kaspiysk.

“The power of illegal mining farm was about 1 MW, which is comparable to the power supply of the residential complex on 300 apartments ", - They say energy.

Similar violations were recorded in several other cities, Including Makhachkala:

“At the same time, as a whole for 2022 year and the first half 2023 the volume of stolen electricity has been almost 34 Milln kWh ".

Recently, Rosseti North Caucasus calculated, What from the beginning 2023 year, the total amount of losses from illegal connections for the sake of mining cryptocurrencies 23 million rubles.

Meanwhile, in the Irkutsk region, which is considered the capital of Russian mining, Illegal miners stole electricity on 350 million rubles. Now the court is trying to recover money from them for stolen electricity.