In the Irkutsk region of Russia, police officers and the Russian Guard detained four suspects in the theft of mining equipment. The cost of devices is estimated at more than 5 million rubles, said Irina Volk, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The equipment for the production of cryptocurrencies was stolen from an industrial hangar on Kazachinskaya Street in the village of Magistralny. Taking the equipment, the attackers fell on the recording of the surveillance camera. Later, men were detained right at the place of residence, said the police representative.

The stolen equipment for mining was seized, a criminal case was opened under part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Theft on an especially large scale”. The detainee was chosen by the preventive measure in the form of a non -departure subscription, Irina Volk said.

Cryptocurrency mining in some regions of Russia, including parts of the Irkutsk region, is completely prohibited. In the remaining regions, a yurlitsa and individual entrepreneurs who registered in the special register of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service), as well as an individual within the monthly limit 6,000, can minimize cryptocurrencies. kW⋅h.

Earlier, the specialists of the Dagenergo company, a branch of the Russian state-owned company Rosseti North Caucasus, found and destroyed an underground mining farm for 135 devices. The farm worked in the basement of a residential building in the capital of Dagestan Makhachkala.