{"id":64583,"date":"2022-07-19T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64583"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:16:38","slug":"kyiv-authorities-uncover-a-fraudulent-mining-investment-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kyiv-authorities-uncover-a-fraudulent-mining-investment-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv authorities uncover a fraudulent mining-investment scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv law enforcement authorities have identified four suspects who allegedly misappropriated victims&#8217; funds by posing as investments in mining farms.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, they offered investments in cryptocurrency mining, promising substantial profits. After receiving the funds from the victims, they ceased contact.<\/p>\n<p>During searches, authorities seized desktop towers, graphics cards, motherboards and hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened under Part 3 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine \u2014 fraud on a particularly large scale or by illicit operations involving electronic computing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Ukrainian law enforcement authorities seized from suspects in Bitcoin schemes <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-seizes-50-million-hryvnias-and-nearly-a-tonne-of-silver-from-suspects-in-crypto-fraud\">50 million hryvnias and 830 kg of silver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv law enforcement authorities have identified four suspects who allegedly misappropriated victims&#8217; funds by posing as investments in mining farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64584,"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":[1154,1137,16],"class_list":["post-64583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583","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=64583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64585,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions\/64585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}