{"id":61775,"date":"2022-05-20T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61775"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:08:17","slug":"butyrka-prison-leadership-suspected-of-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/butyrka-prison-leadership-suspected-of-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Butyrka prison leadership suspected of illegal mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee has begun a probe into one of the leaders of the Butyrka prison for involvement in the illegal organisation of cryptocurrency mining on the detention facility&#8217;s grounds. According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5357906\\\">\u00ab\u042a\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, in November 2021 the suspect, together with accomplices, installed mining equipment in a branch of the FSIN&#8217;s psychiatric hospital located at the Butyrka prison.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminarily, the devices operated until February this year. To power the equipment, more than 62,000 rubles worth of electricity was used.<\/p>\n<p>Law-enforcement authorities are examining one of the detention facility&#8217;s deputy heads for possible abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>In January, in Moscow, employees of the Rosseti Moscow Region branch <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-northern-moscow-50-mining-servers-were-shut-down\">disconnected 50 mining servers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee has begun a probe into one of the leaders of the Butyrka prison for involvement in the illegal organisation of cryptocurrency mining at the detention facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,59],"class_list":["post-61775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-moscow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61777,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61775\/revisions\/61777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}