stolen mining equipment due to a “lack of relevant knowledge.”
Authorities from Russia’s Zavolzhsky district have found a
34-year-old local man guilty of stealing cryptocurrency mining equipment
worth more than 1.6 million rubles (nearly $22,000).
According to the report
shared by the Prosecutor's Office of the Yaroslavl Region, the state
prosecutor confirmed that the Yaroslavl resident was found entering a
friend’s garage unlawfully back in Feb. 2021 and stealing their mining
equipment that was intended to be used for earning cryptocurrency.
The
authorities found the Russian man to be guilty of committing a crime,
citing large-scale theft of property and illegal entry.
In court,
the convict reportedly admitted to the charges and voluntarily returned
the stolen crypto mining equipment back to its original owner.
Additionally, he also admitted to the court that he could not use the
stolen equipment for mining due to the “lack of relevant knowledge.”
Based
on the findings, the court convicted the man to “three years of a
suspended sentence along with a probation period of three years.” This
allows the defendant to have their case dismissed without actual jail
time, given they comply with all the terms of probation.
Related: Russia grants $200K to build tool for tracing crypto transactions
On Aug. 4, Russian authorities announced to allocate 14.7 million rubles ($200,000) for creating systems to monitor and analyze Bitcoin (BTC)-related crypto transactions.
As
Cointelegraph reported, the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring
Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has contracted the job to RCO, a company
indirectly backed by Sber, formerly known as Sberbank.
Russia has previously invested in an analytics system to track illicit activities by “partially reducing anonymity” of crypto transactions for Bitcoin, Ether (ETH), Omni (OMNI) as well as privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Dash (DASH) and Monero (XMR).
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