{"id":47492,"date":"2021-08-11T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47492"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:40:07","slug":"in-moscow-police-detained-a-suspect-over-a-6-7-million-ruble-mining-equipment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-moscow-police-detained-a-suspect-over-a-6-7-million-ruble-mining-equipment-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Moscow, police detained a suspect over a 6.7-million-ruble mining-equipment scam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Moscow, police detained a suspect in fraud and deception of a local resident amounting to 6.7 million rubles. The information was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/mvdmedia.ru\/news\/operativnye-novosti\/stolichnye-politseyskie-zaderzhali-podozrevaemogo-pokhitivshego-obmanom-6-mln-700-tysyach-rubley\/\\\">MVD Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the suspect posed as a businessman and offered the woman a device for cryptocurrency mining. After taking the money, he promised to deliver the equipment within five weeks, but subsequently stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities detained the suspect. It emerged that since 2008 he had been on an international wanted list. During a search, police found three passports under different names bearing the suspect&#8217;s photographs.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened into fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Kemerovo, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kemerovo-resident-loses-more-than-700000-rubles-in-attempt-to-buy-mining-equipment\">lost more than 700,000 rubles<\/a> in an attempt to buy mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Read 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 analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow police detained a suspect in fraud and deception of a local resident for 6.7 million rubles. The information was reported by MVD Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47493,"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":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-47492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","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\/47492","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=47492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47494,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions\/47494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}