The police of the Irkutsk region detained a local resident who is suspected of organizing a fraudulent “mining hotel”. According to law enforcement officers, the accused together with the accomplices sold equipment transferred by customers for accommodation in the Data Center, and they assigned the money. The damage amounted to more than 270 million rubles.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Irkutsk Region said that a statement from a local resident was received in the duty unit of the police department No. 7 of the inter-municipal department of the Irkutsk Ministry of Internal Affairs. He said that he handed over to the “mining hotel” to the ASIC major worth 3 million rubles. He began to receive payments to a cryptocurrency wallet, but to resolve some issues, he decided to visit the office in which he signed the contract and transferred the equipment. The office was closed, and the hotel phone did not answer, so the miner went to the police.

Investigators detained an individual entrepreneur who opened the Date Center. The 26-year-old man admitted that in fact he and his two accomplices sold the equipment received, and so that the clients were not worried, some of the money was directed to their cryptocurrencies. Fraudsters also provided services for the sale and supply of mining devices, also assigning funds. As a result, more than 100 people were injured, and the total damage exceeded 270 million rubles.

“Currently, a criminal case has been instituted on this fact under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed on an especially large scale). The police officers are interrogated by victims, additional episodes and circumstances of the acts committed are established, and measures are taken to detain the rest of the accomplices, ”the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk region reports.

Now fraudsters face imprisonment for up to 10 years and a fine of up to 1 million rubles. It should be noted that a year ago in Irkutsk they already condemned scammers who have fictitiously selling mining equipment.