{"id":41526,"date":"2021-04-28T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41526"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:08:17","slug":"in-crimea-two-suspects-detained-for-buying-cryptocurrency-mining-equipment-with-counterfeit-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-crimea-two-suspects-detained-for-buying-cryptocurrency-mining-equipment-with-counterfeit-money\/","title":{"rendered":"In Crimea, two suspects detained for buying cryptocurrency mining equipment with counterfeit money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Crimea said that two suspects were detained for buying cryptocurrency mining equipment with counterfeit money.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, in February\u2013March 2021 the perpetrators acquired counterfeit notes with a denomination of 5,000 rubles on one of the websites. Subsequently they found advertisements for the sale of video cards and other mining equipment, which they purchased using the counterfeit funds.<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement officials, they concluded at least three such deals.<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects were detained, and a criminal case has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a court in the Nizhny Novgorod region began examining the criminal case of an interregional criminal group that, over two years, managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/scammers-in-russia-sold-around-1-billion-rubles-worth-of-counterfeit-notes-for-cryptocurrency\">to print and sell around 1 billion counterfeit rubles via the darknet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Crimea said that two suspects were detained for buying cryptocurrency mining equipment with counterfeit money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1137],"class_list":["post-41526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526","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=41526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41528,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526\/revisions\/41528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}