{"id":43852,"date":"2021-06-07T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43852"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:17:15","slug":"in-irkutsk-suspects-have-been-arrested-in-a-series-of-mining-equipment-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-irkutsk-suspects-have-been-arrested-in-a-series-of-mining-equipment-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"In Irkutsk, suspects have been arrested in a series of mining-equipment thefts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutsk law-enforcement authorities identified suspects accused of a series of thefts of mining equipment. Information is reported on the <a href=\"https:\/\/38.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/24537845\/\">Ministry of Internal Affairs website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the suspects stole cryptocurrency mining devices from an office, as well as equipment located on the balcony of a multi-apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>During searches of one suspect&#8217;s garage, law enforcement found part of the stolen items, and identified a &#8220;channel for the sale of machines,&#8221; where around twenty stolen devices were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The losses amounted to about 2 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened for theft on an especially large scale. Two members of the group have been arrested; the others remain under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Crimea, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-crimea-two-suspects-detained-for-buying-cryptocurrency-mining-equipment-with-counterfeit-money\">two suspects were arrested<\/a> who were buying cryptocurrency-mining equipment with counterfeit money.<\/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, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutsk law-enforcement authorities identified suspects accused of a series of mining-equipment thefts. Information was reported on the Ministry of Internal Affairs&#8217; website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43853,"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-43852","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852","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=43852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43854,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852\/revisions\/43854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}