In St. Petersburg, the operation of an illegal mining farm, located in the hangar on the Mitrofanevsky highway in the industrial zone of the Moscow district, was stopped. This was reported in the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

According to the police, the room where the cryptocurrency was mined was several hundred square meters. It contained a large number of computing equipment connected to the neighboring substation through the distribution shield.

Representatives of the electric grid company recorded the fact of incompetent electricity consumption and issued relevant technical acts. According to preliminary estimates, the damage from electricity consumption amounted to almost 10 million rubles.

The seized equipment was transferred to a specialized storage warehouse. On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was opened under Art. 165 of the Criminal Code (causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust). Law enforcement officers are looking for persons who organized illegal production of cryptocurrencies, summarized the GUMVD.

Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, said that the work of an illegal mining farm was suppressed in the garage complex of the city of Bataysk, the Rostov region.