In Shelekhov, the kidnapper of mining equipment for 1 million rubles – Bits Media

An entrepreneur contacted the police in the city of Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, with a complaint about the theft of mining equipment worth 1 million rubles. The attacker was soon detained.

According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region, mining equipment was located in one of the office rooms. 54-a summer resident of Shelekhov entered the office and “under the threat of violence, dangerous to life and health" removed the devices.

“As the police established, intruder at night, calculating the security premises, entered the room and, at gunpoint, locked a 70-year-old watchman in the next office. Then the criminal carried it out of the premises from above 20 pieces of equipment for mining cryptocurrency and disappeared", – law enforcement agencies reported.

The suspect had previously been convicted of theft and, According to him, Lack of money forced him to commit a crime. A criminal case was initiated against a 54-year-old criminal under Art.. 161 Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – theft on an especially large scale. He faces imprisonment for a term of 6 to 12 years with a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

At the beginning of June it was reported, what in 2021 year in Russia the number of litigations has increased significantly, in which cryptocurrencies appeared. The indicator increased by 40% And compiled 1 531 case.