{"id":55398,"date":"2021-12-29T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55398"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:08:15","slug":"near-rostov-customs-officers-discovered-10-undeclared-bitcoin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/near-rostov-customs-officers-discovered-10-undeclared-bitcoin-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Near Rostov, customs officers discovered 10 undeclared Bitcoin miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspectors at the Matveyev Kurgan border post did not allow undeclared cryptocurrency-mining devices to cross the border. The department&#8217;s press service <a href=\\\"https:\/\/yutu.customs.gov.ru\/news\/document\/320888\\\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle driven by a Ukrainian national arrived at the checkpoint from the Russian side. During the inspection, customs officers found 10 ASIC miners in the trunk and on the rear seat of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The driver said he bought the devices from a private entrepreneur in Moscow for personal use.<\/p>\n<p>An administrative offence case has been opened against the driver.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in May, Turkish customs confiscated <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/four-people-arrested-in-turkey-for-smuggling-501-bitcoin-miners\">501 ASIC miners<\/a> with a total value of 5 million Turkish lira ($600,000). At the time, the seized batch of equipment was a record for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspectors at the Matveyev Kurgan border post did not allow undeclared cryptocurrency-mining devices to cross the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55399,"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":[1137,27,558],"class_list":["post-55398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia","tag-taxes"],"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\/55398","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=55398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55400,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions\/55400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}