In the village of Surkhahi in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia, employees of the Rosseti North Caucasus company found a mining farm operating in the premises of the livestock complex. The farm managed to use 8 million kWh of electricity bypassing meters.

Representatives of the branch of Ingushenergo of the Rosseti state -owned company found a farm along with police officers. The farm worked in a closed room without doors and consisted of 99 devices for the production of cryptocurrencies, power engineers said.

Previously, power engineers installed a 100 KV transformer with a capacity of 100 KVs on this livestock complex. However, the owner of the complex without permission was replaced by a 400 KV transformer and connected it bypassing metering devices, Rosseti said.

According to preliminary estimates of power engineers, the volume of stolen electricity is comparable to the energy consumption of the Ingush republican clinical hospital in five years. The exact amount of damage is established, the security forces are looking for persons who are involved in the organization of illegal mining farm.

In Ingushetia, mining cryptocurrencies is completely prohibited. Earlier, Russian police officers discovered an illegal farm for mining cryptocurrencies in the utility room of the industrial zone of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia and seized 65 devices for the extraction of digital assets.