{"id":56176,"date":"2022-01-19T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:07:08","slug":"three-men-detained-in-irkutsk-over-theft-of-15-bitcoin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/three-men-detained-in-irkutsk-over-theft-of-15-bitcoin-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men detained in Irkutsk over theft of 15 Bitcoin miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutsk police detained three local residents suspected of stealing cryptocurrency mining equipment, the press service <a href=\"https:\/\/38.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the suspects broke into a country house and stole 15 ASIC miners worth 750,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing surveillance footage, authorities determined that the suspects arrived in a taxi service vehicle in which one of them worked.<\/p>\n<p>During searches of the suspects&#8217; apartments, police found and seized the stolen devices.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees were three men aged 20 to 22. One of them had previously known the victim, knew how to access the property and where the equipment was stored.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened in connection with the theft.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2021, the Shelekhovsky district police of Irkutsk Oblast <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mining-equipment-stolen-in-irkutsk-region-through-roof-hole\">uncovered a series of thefts<\/a> of cryptocurrency mining equipment. Some of the devices were removed through a hole in the garage roof.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irkutsk police detained three local residents suspected of stealing cryptocurrency mining equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56177,"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-56176","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":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176","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=56176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56178,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions\/56178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}