Rosseti North Caucasus
Russia
Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation
Pyatigorsk
357506, Substation street, house 13A.
Owners
History
2024
Identifying a large mining farm that stole ₽387,4 million worth of electricity
Specialists of PJSC Rosseti North Caucasus have discovered a large mining farm in Dagestan, numbering more than 400 devices for mining cryptocurrency. The total damage from the activities of crypto farms in the region for the period from 2021 to 2023 amounted to ₽387,4 million. This became known in December 2024.
According to RBC, the acting director of the Dagenergo branch, Arsen Hajiyev, said that the specialists of the energy company almost daily identify cases of illegal use of electricity for mining cryptocurrencies. "Last week we found one of the largest in recent memory. The farm consisted of just over 400 devices. Law enforcement agencies, together with our employees, assess the damage and initiate a criminal case, "said Arsen Hajiyev during a press conference.
In November 2024, experts from Rosseti North Caucasus PJSC, together with representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan, have already discovered a large mining farm in Makhachkala. As a result of the operation, 110 pieces of equipment used to mine cryptocurrency were seized. The identification of this farm has become part of the systematic work to combat the illegal use of electricity in the region.
According to the publication, the Republic of Dagestan is the region with the lowest cost of electricity for mining cryptocurrencies in Russia. Electricity tariffs within the established limits in the republic, as in Khakassia and the Irkutsk region, range from ₽9 thousand to ₽16 thousand.
Over the past three years, the volume of theft of electricity by mining farms in Dagestan has reached significant proportions, the company said in December 2024. According to PJSC Rosseti North Caucasus, the total material damage from the activities of illegal crypto farms in the republic exceeded ₽387,4 million. This amount was calculated on the basis of an analysis of detected cases of illegal electricity consumption between 2021 and 2023.[1]
In Dagestan, a mining farm with 177 devices was identified, which stole electricity from Rosseti for ₽10 million
In the Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, a large illegal mining farm was discovered, the owner of which illegally consumed electricity. The identification of a crypto farm with 177 cryptocurrency mining devices on November 18, 2024 was reported by power engineers after the raid. Read more here.
The company's employees were arrested in the case of embezzlement of 2.8 billion rubles for the creation of an IT electricity accounting system in Dagestan
Employees of Rosseti North Caucasus were arrested in the case of embezzlement of 2.8 billion rubles for the creation of an IT electricity accounting system in Dagestan. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced this on April 12, 2024.
According to law enforcement agencies, the attackers conducted illegal activities for several years. They committed violations when creating a comprehensive electricity accounting system in Dagestan with automated data collection, for which budget funds were allocated. Dagenergo subscribers were supposed to install meters to transmit data on electricity consumed, but the project was never implemented.
As part of the investigation of this case, nine searches were carried out in the places of residence and work of members of an organized criminal group (organized criminal group) in the Moscow region, Dagestan, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and the Stavropol Territory.
According to the investigation, both former and current employees of Rosseti North Caucasus, a branch of Dagenergo and a number of contracting companies were members of the organized crime group. Nine people in the case were detained and then arrested. They were charged under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale). The maximum punishment for it is 10 years in prison.
The message published in the official Telegram channel of PJSC Rosseti North Caucasus states that eight of the nine detainees are not employees of the organization, and the episodes that are imputed to the detainees relate to the period of their work in the contractor.
Earlier in April 2024, the director of Dagenergo Magomedhabib Mukhumaev was arrested, who is involved in the case of embezzlement of 2.8 billion rubles belonging to PJSC Rosseti and IDGC of the North Caucasus. PJSC Rosseti North Caucasus clarified that this case is not related to the work of Mukhamaev as director of the Dagenergo branch[2]
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