In 2021, the bankrupt Dormash plant in Orel became the region’s largest debtor for utility payments. This was reported by the press service of the Orlovsky Power Supply.
The tenants of the production site – \”Digital Group\” and \”Technology of Light\” – were mining cryptocurrency on energy-intensive equipment connected to the plant’s networks. The damage from their actions amounted to 5.4 million rubles.
A criminal case has been opened against the managers of the two organisations for causing property damage by deceit or abuse of trust. They face up to five years’ imprisonment.
The Dormash plant was declared bankrupt by court order in March 2017. By mid-2017, wage arrears to the plant’s workers stood at about 80 million rubles.
Earlier in December 2019, media linked Bitcoin mining at the Dormash plant to Andrey Klychkov, governor of Oryol Oblast. In response, the governor’s adviser Sergey Lezhnev described the accusations of organising the farm as \”stupid, inadequate and absurd\”.
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