Officers from the Division of Particular Investigation (DSI) have seized 3,500 Bitcoin mining machines and arrested a person in raids on 41 areas in Bangkok and its neighbouring province of Nonthaburi.
Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin advised the media immediately (Wednesday) that this unlawful operation had been in enterprise for about two years and has value the Metropolitan Electrical energy Authority (MEA) an estimated 500 million baht in misplaced revenues from alleged electrical energy theft over that point.
He mentioned that the profitable crackdown on this unlawful operation was the results of an in depth investigation by the DSI lasting greater than a yr.
The gang reportedly generated income, estimated at 4.2 million baht per thirty days, from the three,500 mining machines or over 100 million baht previously two years.
Somsak mentioned that the gang had put in about 100 Bitcoin mining machines at every location and the ringleader had employed about 20 workers to function the machines.
He mentioned that the DSI suspect that some MEA staff is likely to be complicit within the unlawful operation, asking the way it might be that the gang had stolen electrical energy for 2 years with out their information.
He additionally mentioned that he would really like the MEA to research the matter as shortly as potential.
In response to the justice minister, theft of electrical energy is dangerous, as a result of the temperature within the constructing will improve sharply, making it susceptible to fireplace. Three buildings are reported to have caught hearth because of electrical energy theft.
