In Kazakhstan, IT specialists were forced to extract cryptocurrency – Bits Media

Law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan identified an underground mining farm with a monthly income up to half a million dollars, associated with high -ranking officials and businessmen.

Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Committee national security of Kazakhstan (KNB) and local police during a joint operation in Alma-Ata, Shymkent, Almaty, Aktobe and Zhambyl regions detained a group of people, suspects of creating a criminal group. Organized crime group, Law enforcement officers believe, forced with the help of threats and blackmailing specialists in blockchain for cryptocurrency mining. for instance, The criminals “put on the counter” of a 36-year-old specialist in the field of IT technologies, which was forced to organize the work of mining farms.

The group "Criminal oriented persons" consisted, Police tell, of 23 former convicts, specializing in breeding debts. Monthly on underground mining farms, located in the Talgar district of the Almaty region, cryptocurrencies were mined $300 000 to $500 000 per month.

During searches, the police seized pistols, Kalashnikova machine gun, cartridges, Three sets of false car numbers, Black accounting, more than six thousand items of equipment for mining farms for a total of about $7 million.

Investigators assure, that the detainees were participants in a multilevel scheme, And large cryptocurrency mining operations in Kazakhstan were associated with high -ranking officials and influential businessmen.

The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan in February reported, that his experts have managed to identify and disable his experts over the past five days 13 mining farms, which officials consider illegal.