{"id":42795,"date":"2021-05-19T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42795"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:49:01","slug":"syktyvkar-miner-stole-electricity-worth-5-5-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/syktyvkar-miner-stole-electricity-worth-5-5-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Syktyvkar miner stole electricity worth 5.5 million rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officials in the Komi Republic have charged a local resident with stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency, the prosecutor&#8217;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/web\/proc_11\/mass-media\/news?item=61956912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, in 2015 a businessman from Syktyvkar decided to take up mining and purchased more than 400 units of equipment. To power it, the defendant illegally connected to the electrical grids.<\/p>\n<p>The total damage amounted to more than 5.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal case has been sent to court.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in North Ossetia detained miners on charges of electricity theft <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-north-ossetia-cryptocurrency-miners-detained-over-electricity-theft-worth-2-6-million-rubles\">for a total of 2.6 million rubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in the Komi Republic accused a local resident of stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42796,"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":[1154,1137,27],"class_list":["post-42795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42795","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=42795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42797,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42795\/revisions\/42797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}