{"id":30835,"date":"2020-10-28T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:13:12","slug":"three-former-police-officers-jailed-for-five-years-over-seized-mining-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/three-former-police-officers-jailed-for-five-years-over-seized-mining-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Three former police officers jailed for five years over seized mining equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ex-police officers from Vyazemsky district of Smolensk Oblast were found guilty of abuse of power and official forgery. This is according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax-russia.ru\/center\/news\/troe-eks-policeyskih-v-smolenskoy-oblasti-poluchili-po-5-let-kolonii-za-prisvoenie-oborudovaniya-dlya-raboty-s-kriptovalyutoy-na-30-mln-rubley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfax<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> citing law enforcement authorities.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February 2018 they seized mining equipment from a shopping centre valued at over 40 million rubles, on the pretext of electricity theft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court sentenced the defendants to five years in a general-regime penal colony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/court-to-hear-case-of-former-fsb-investigators-accused-of-extortion-of-65-million-rubles-in-bitcoins\">became known<\/a> that the court had begun considering the case of former FSB investigators, accused of extorting 65 million rubles in bitcoins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former police officers from Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast, were found guilty of abuse of power and official forgery. Interfax reports, citing law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1137,27],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","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=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30837,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions\/30837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}