A mining farm was discovered in the Fakel horticultural association near Tosno in the Leningrad region, whose activities led to the loss of about 4.5 million rubles — the annual budget of the community of summer residents.
The management of the Fakel gardening cooperative decided to eliminate the consequences of a gale-force wind that knocked down trees on the wires, and they fell on an uninhabited plot with an unattractive wooden cabin.
One of the gardeners heard a strange hum from the boarded-up building. It turned out that it was connected to electricity bypassing the meter. The police officers who arrived on the call opened the cabin and found several working computers, which are usually used for mining digital assets.
According to the gardeners, the mining farm consumed up to 24 kWh per day, and the cryptocurrency mining itself may have started several years ago, when the association first noticed the loss of electricity.
All this time, the association has been paying its electricity bills from the gardeners’ contributions. The gardeners are now looking for a lawyer and preparing an appeal to the prosecutor’s office.
Earlier, in the Uysky District of the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia, a criminal case was opened against a kindergarten teacher for using electricity compensation to cover the expenses of a family mining farm.
