FSB: Three employees of the Ministry of Emergencies stole mining equipment on 63 million rubles – Bits Media

The Office of the FSB in the Republic of Khakassia announced a major embezzlement of equipment for the production of cryptocurrencies. The amount of theft amounted to 63 million rubles, And three employees of the Ministry of Emergencies are considered suspects.

Two firefighters together with a certain individual entrepreneur in the spring Last year, a container was placed on the territory of the company "Rail Abakan Vagonmash". The container was connected to power networks and deployed equipment for the production of cryptocurrencies, received from a third -party organization, Law enforcement officers tell.

The fall of the cryptocurrency market and income led to debt for the placement of equipment. Under the pretext of compensation for debt, the organizers of a kind of mining hotel in April 2022 years decided to take out the entire farm to another place. A total were stolen 287 devices for the total amount from above 63 million rubles, assure the FSB.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Abakan opened a criminal case in part 1 Articles 330 Criminal Code "Self -Chief". Operational-search measures are being held for that, to establish all the circumstances of the case.

In June, the organizers of the mining hotel in the Irkutsk region took out
All equipment disappeared. The damage from the theft of devices exceeded 100 million rubles.