{"id":49498,"date":"2021-09-15T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49498"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:56:51","slug":"lawyer-sought-15-million-rubles-for-return-of-seized-mining-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/lawyer-sought-15-million-rubles-for-return-of-seized-mining-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer sought 15 million rubles for return of seized mining equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officers in the Orenburg region detained a lawyer as he was receiving 15 million rubles from a participant in one of the criminal cases related to mining. This was reported by the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/oren.sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1609527\/\\\">\u0421\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u043c \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0442\u0435<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the suspect deceitfully persuaded the participant in the criminal proceedings to hand over 15 million rubles to recover the previously seized computer equipment used for mining cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The attorney was detained at the moment of receiving the funds. The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-fsb-detains-suspects-in-extortion-of-10-million-rubles-from-a-cryptocurrency-businessman\">it was reported<\/a> that the FSB detained suspects in the extortion of 10 million rubles from a cryptocurrency businessman.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/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>Law enforcement officers in the Orenburg region detained a lawyer while receiving 15 million rubles from a participant in a mining-related criminal case. The Investigative Committee said so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49499,"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-49498","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":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49498","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=49498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49500,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49498\/revisions\/49500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}