A court in Tatarstan sentenced two residents of Udmurtia, accused of robbing a cryptocurrency mining farm, to four and a half years in a strict-regime penal colony. The Kommersant reports.
In the summer of 2019, two 20-year-old students penetrated the territory of the Chistopol Industrial Park. They bound the security guard and stole 114 ASIC miners. Using them, the park conducted an experiment to heat greenhouses.
The perpetrators were arrested in December of the same year. It emerged that they were hired by unknown individuals, paid about 10,000 rubles. The organizers of the raid and the stolen equipment could not be found.
The damage amounted to 4.5 million rubles.
Earlier in February 2020, a court in Bryansk sentenced a local resident to four years in prison and a fine of 250,000 rubles for robbing a mining equipment workshop worth 15 million rubles.
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