{"id":54978,"date":"2021-12-20T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54978"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:08:40","slug":"mining-equipment-stolen-in-irkutsk-region-through-roof-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/mining-equipment-stolen-in-irkutsk-region-through-roof-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining equipment stolen in Irkutsk region through roof hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Shelekhovsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, police uncovered a series of thefts of cryptocurrency mining equipment. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/38.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\/news\/item\/27494861\/\">reported<\/a> by the local Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, in September unknown individuals entered a private plot in the village of Baklashi. They cut a hole in the garage roof, opened the sliding gates, and stole devices worth 200,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The following morning, investigators detained three men aged 28 to 49. One of them lived on a neighbouring street to the victim and knew that the latter was involved in mining. A search of his home yielded the stolen equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, law enforcement established the suspects&#8217; involvement in four additional thefts of ASIC miners worth a total of 1.5 million rubles from private residences.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal cases have been opened. By court order, the accused have been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that 16 residents of the Irkutsk region <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sixteen-residents-of-irkutsk-oblast-gave-scammers-2-5-million-rubles-in-bid-to-start-mining\">gave scammers 2.5 million rubles<\/a> in an attempt to start mining.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2021, the region has recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mining-equipment-theft-in-the-irkutsk-region-totalled-76-million-rubles-in-2021\">around 250 thefts of equipment for cryptocurrency mining<\/a>. Total losses have exceeded 76 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Shelekhovsky District of Irkutsk Oblast uncovered a series of cryptocurrency mining equipment thefts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54979,"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-54978","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":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978","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=54978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54980,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions\/54980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}