Abkhazia: deputy’s aide fired after attempt to import mining equipment

The aide to a member of the Abkhazian parliament, Lasha Sakania, left his post after an attempt to bring mining equipment into the country. Local media report.

At the end of March, customs officers stopped Sakania’s official car as it crossed the Psou border checkpoint on the Russia-Abkhazia border. The owner of the equipment was in the car.

Deputy Ilya Gunia, with whom Sakania worked, said that transporting the equipment with him had not been coordinated.

Earlier in March, Abkhaz Parliament deputies approved penalties for illegal electricity consumption for cryptocurrency mining.

For individuals, this amounts to twenty times the minimum wage per kilowatt of capacity; for officials – one thousand minimum wages.

The republic’s authorities extended the ban on mining and on bringing in equipment for its implementation until 2022.

Earlier, Abkhazia’s Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab privately allowed a local entrepreneur to bring mining equipment into the republic, despite the ban.

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