On March 13, law enforcement officers detained loaders suspected of stealing equipment for cryptocurrency mining. “Employees of the Department for Combating Criminal Encroachments on Cargo of the Line Police Department at Vladivostok Airport, together with the airport cargo terminal security service, identified suspects in the theft of data processing units,” reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Far Eastern Federal District.
Carriers stole three mining devices worth a total of about 70 thousand rubles while unloading baggage on the Seoul (Incheon) - Vladivostok flight.
Currently, a criminal case has already been opened into the theft, and the suspects themselves are under recognizance not to leave.
“Investigators of the Vladivostok Line Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport have opened a criminal case on signs of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Theft). The maximum sanction of the article is imprisonment for a term of up to five years."
We would like to remind you that in February in Murmansk region, attackers stole equipment for mining worth a total of almost half a million rubles.
According to https://дфоут.мвд.рф
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