{"id":59350,"date":"2022-03-29T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59350"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:23:11","slug":"two-volgograd-residents-suspected-of-organizing-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/two-volgograd-residents-suspected-of-organizing-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Volgograd residents suspected of organizing illegal mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Volgograd are investigating a corruption scheme linked to powering a mining farm. The information was <a href=\"https:\/\/volgograd.sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1668339\/\">reported<\/a> by the local Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to case materials, in December 2020, a 34-year-old entrepreneur offered a bribe to a 30-year-old senior engineer at one of the region&#8217;s largest electricity-distribution companies in exchange for underreporting the meter readings.<\/p>\n<p>From January to July 2021, the energy company employee received in total around 200 000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects have been detained; one of them is in custody. Investigations into additional episodes related to the illegal supply of electricity to mining farms are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February, police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/police-detain-owners-of-mining-farm-at-a-farming-cooperative-near-penza\">detained the owners of the mining farm<\/a> in a cooperative near Penza. They are suspected of large-scale electricity theft amounting to more than half a million rubles.<\/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, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Volgograd, authorities are investigating a corruption scheme related to powering a mining farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59351,"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":[137,1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-59350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-corruption","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"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\/59350","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=59350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59352,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59350\/revisions\/59352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}