{"id":46473,"date":"2021-07-21T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46473"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:36:40","slug":"kazans-metroelektrotrans-employees-mined-cryptocurrency-at-the-companys-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kazans-metroelektrotrans-employees-mined-cryptocurrency-at-the-companys-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazan\u2019s Metroelektrotrans employees mined cryptocurrency at the company\u2019s expense."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee of Tatarstan <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tatarstan.sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1593753\/\\\">discovered<\/a> equipment for mining that illegally consumed electricity, connected to one of Kazan&#8217;s Metroelektrotrans transformer substations.<\/p>\n<p>The chief engineer and the head of the energy-management service for ground transport at Kazan&#8217;s Metroelektrotrans are suspected in the unauthorized installation of the equipment. The defendants pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, they placed the miners at the substation in March. Over two months of operation, the cryptocurrency mining devices illegally consumed electricity worth more than 352,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment has been filed against the suspects for abuse of official powers.<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory framework for mining in Russia remains absent and this activity is not officially prohibited. However, unauthorized connection to power grids or theft of electricity for mining cryptocurrency is a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, specialists from Rosseti Siberia, in cooperation with law enforcement, discovered a mining farm in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/illegal-mining-farm-found-in-the-building-of-an-abandoned-kuzbass-school\">the building of an abandoned Kuzbass school<\/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, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee of Tatarstan discovered equipment for mining that illegally consumed electricity, connected to one of Kazan&#8217;s Metroelektrotrans transformer substations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46474,"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":[1137,27],"class_list":["post-46473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46473","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=46473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46475,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46473\/revisions\/46475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}