A case has been sent to the court in Yaroslavl Oblast against a 42-year-old resident of the Moscow region, who is accused of fraud totaling 5.2 million rubles in cryptocurrency. The information was reported by the local сообщили interior ministry.
According to investigators, the defendant between 2017 and 2022 bought accounts with positive reviews on a free classifieds site and, through them, allegedly sold GPUs for mining. The seller demanded full prepayment in cryptocurrency, but did not intend to supply the equipment.
In 2020 he persuaded a resident of Irkutsk to buy 140 GPUs from him for more than 1.5 million rubles. Under a similar scheme, residents of Voronezh and Omsk were defrauded for a total of 3.4 million rubles. Five more fraud cases were identified involving residents of Yaroslavl, Voronezh and Kazan.
The total damage across eight episodes amounted to 5.2 million rubles.
The defendant was detained in the Moscow Region and remanded in custody in Yaroslavl Oblast pending the court hearing.
Earlier ForkLog reported that equipment worth 22 million rubles was stolen from a mining hotel in Chelyabinsk.