{"id":56089,"date":"2022-01-18T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56089"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:44:46","slug":"court-sentences-syktyvkar-miner-for-theft-of-electricity-worth-5-7-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/court-sentences-syktyvkar-miner-for-theft-of-electricity-worth-5-7-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sentences Syktyvkar miner for theft of electricity worth 5.7 million rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Syktyvkar, a local resident has been convicted of illicitly connecting to power grids to mine cryptocurrency. The Komi Republic prosecutor&#8217;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/web\/proc_11\/mass-media\/news?item=69651760\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that in 2015 a 39-year-old resident of Syktyvkar leased a non-residential building and placed a mining farm there to mine cryptocurrency. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/syktyvkar-miner-stole-electricity-worth-5-5-million-rubles\">illegally connected<\/a> his computer to the transformer station of the enterprise from which he leased the site.<\/p>\n<p>Over five years of operation, the mining farm consumed 1.3 million kWh of electricity. The damage to the organization maintaining the building amounted to 5.7 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant admitted guilt. He received a two-year suspended sentence with a two-year probation period.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that energy workers in the Novosibirsk region found <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mining-farm-found-in-an-old-truck-in-the-novosibirsk-region\">a mining-farm in an old truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read 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 analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local resident in Syktyvkar was convicted for illicitly connecting to power grids to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56090,"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":[1162,1137,27],"class_list":["post-56089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089","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=56089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56091,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions\/56091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}