{"id":57435,"date":"2022-02-09T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57435"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:43:54","slug":"police-detain-owners-of-mining-farm-at-a-farming-cooperative-near-penza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/police-detain-owners-of-mining-farm-at-a-farming-cooperative-near-penza\/","title":{"rendered":"Police detain owners of mining farm at a farming cooperative near Penza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Penza region, on the grounds of a farming cooperative, a crypto-mining farm was found, whose owners are suspected of large-scale electricity theft. The local police press service <a href=\"https:\/\/58.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities detained seven local residents, including specialists in power grids and computer equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminarily, it was established that they connected mining devices to the electrical network bypassing metering devices.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;To conceal illegal energy consumption, the criminals disabled equipment in the distribution device of the transformer substation and on the reinforced concrete support of the high-voltage line,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to energy officials, in two months of operation the farm consumed more than 3 million kWh of electricity, worth over 500,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against the suspects for causing property damage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog reported that in Kostroma Oblast illegal electricity consumption for mining <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/illegal-electricity-consumption-for-mining-worth-3-million-rubles-detected-in-kostroma-oblast\">for 3 million rubles<\/a> was detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Penza region, on the grounds of a farming cooperative, a crypto-mining farm was found, whose owners are suspected of large-scale electricity theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57436,"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":[1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-57435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57435","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=57435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57437,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57435\/revisions\/57437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}