{"id":12595,"date":"2024-04-16T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/founders-of-greenstar-mining-sentenced-to-prison-in-irkutsk\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:47:15","slug":"founders-of-greenstar-mining-sentenced-to-prison-in-irkutsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/founders-of-greenstar-mining-sentenced-to-prison-in-irkutsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders of &#8216;Greenstar Mining&#8217; Sentenced to Prison in Irkutsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Irkutsk <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sud38RF\/81\">delivered a guilty verdict<\/a> to five residents of the Chelyabinsk region involved in the fictitious sale of cryptocurrency mining equipment through the company &#8216;Greenstar Mining&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the case materials, since 2021, the defendants advertised their services online, offering to supply miners with a 50% prepayment. They also claimed to provide hosting for clients&#8217; existing devices at their &#8216;mining hostel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the founders of &#8216;Greenstar Mining&#8217; appropriated the money and equipment for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>During their criminal activities, they defrauded 68 individuals, causing total damages exceeding 12 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3 years and 8 months to 4 years in a general regime colony. The victims are to receive compensation for the stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict has not yet come into legal force.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that in Novosibirsk, energy companies, together with the police, shut down mining farms comprising 3225 devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Irkutsk delivered a guilty verdict to five residents of the Chelyabinsk region involved in the fictitious sale of cryptocurrency mining equipment through the company &#8216;Greenstar Mining&#8217;. According to the case materials, since 2021, the defendants advertised their services online, offering to supply miners with a 50% prepayment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1137,27,1246],"class_list":["post-12595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}