The Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Sukhum discovered three mining farms secretly connected to the power grid. Twenty-five pieces of cryptocurrency mining equipment were confiscated, and the farms stopped working.

Public security police officers from the Metropolitan Department of Internal Affairs were specifically looking for illegal connections to networks. Four miner devices were found on the plot of a private household on Artsakh Street. Two more mining devices were found in the basement of one of the entrances of house No. 20 on Eshba Street, and the remaining nineteen devices were found by police officers in a repair shop inside house No. 15 on Shapsugskaya Street.

In 2023, more than three thousand devices for mining cryptocurrencies were found and taken away from their owners in Abkhazia, and in the first quarter of 2024, another eight hundred devices were found, reports the Ministry of Energy and Transport of Abkhazia.

Since November 2023, the administration of the city of Sukhum began, according to officials, to dispose of all equipment found for the extraction of digital assets.

Earlier, a meeting of the operational headquarters to combat illegal cryptocurrency mining was held in Abkhazia, as a result of which they decided to tighten the fight against underground mining and render confiscated equipment unusable.