Police Arrest

[HeRetiK]

Wow, he has stolen 70$ worth of electricity a month.

Crime is a crime and according to crime codes (yгoлoвный кoдeкc - in russian) it has no value. He will just pay an administrative fine of several thousand russian rubles and be free.

So in the end it's just news that gets overblown because crypto was involved. Got it.

To be fair "Local post guy to face mid-sized administrative fees for stealing electricity worth a couple of bucks from their employer in a small town of rural Russia" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

In other news, a bike got toppled in China. Possible cause of recent Bitcoin price drop? Details at 10.

[AakZaki]

Doing hidden mining for 6 months in the office without being known by anyone, of course a long time. Then how much mining results did he get for 6 months? does he benefit, because the total resource cost spent is only 30,000 Russian rubles equivalent to $426.

He spent only about $70 / month on the cost of resources needed. this is only a small miner and not so burdensome, but still violates the rules. Maybe the judge's decision is just a fine and a prison sentence in a few weeks. Not a big case when compared with corruption and other cases.

[pixie85]

When you run something like that at work sooner or later you're going to get caught because people will tell on you.

You will get into an argument with one of your co-workers or somebody will do it out of envy.

It was a very risky operation. He was too greedy and got caught. I don't think it was worth the profit.

[Zionatin]

As long as those resources were not meant to be used for something else I don't see what the problem is. Many companies leave so many computers on overnight and its all to waste. Why not install some miners on them?
The thing is they probably don't want people messing with them and I wonder how this person got caught. Surely if you set the threshold low for the miner no one will know? Especially if it's late at night when not many resources are needed?

[Rafiqul]

I don't think he should have run a crypto mining farm inside his office. In every country, there are some laws in the department, everyone should work according to those laws. He probably wouldn't have been in this predicament if he had run a crypto mining farm in his own home or on his own. Now he has to be released in accordance with the law. Hopefully everyone will learn from here for the future.

[Bitcoinmoon12]

Russian Authorities Are Considering Punishing Bitcoin Buyers With Fines $ 7,000 Or Imprisonment
https://azcoinnews.com/russian-authorities-are-considering-punishing-bitcoin-buyers-with-fines-7000-or-imprisonment.html

[meanwords]

I don't have any idea about the law but can someone tell me if mining inside the office is really a crime?

It's basically theft. Why? because they are stealing electricity and resources outside of their work which is against the law. Also, I've heard that Russia is against cryptocurrency at some point. I'm not sure about that but there's been a lot of articles about it.

[Anonylz]

Wow, he has stolen 70$ worth of electricity a month.

Crime is a crime and according to crime codes (yгoлoвный кoдeкc - in russian) it has no value. He will just pay an administrative fine of several thousand russian rubles and be free.

Yeah a crime is a crime and since it was illegally run makes it a crime because it was not approve by the management or the officials,
If I were to be the judge of course a fine will be enough, more than whatever he ever made from the six months of mining won't be enough for him to pay off his fine,
Knowing the position of crypto in Russia at present, why will he even consider doing that especially in a place like an office, whatever happens to his personal residence! He wanted free electricity now it will cost him a lot more than if he had just done it at home.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

Wow, he has stolen 70$ worth of electricity a month.

Crime is a crime and according to crime codes (yгoлoвный кoдeкc - in russian) it has no value. He will just pay an administrative fine of several thousand russian rubles and be free.

Yeah a crime is a crime and since it was illegally run makes it a crime because it was not approve by the management or the officials,
If I were to be the judge of course a fine will be enough, more than whatever he ever made from the six months of mining won't be enough for him to pay off his fine,
Knowing the position of crypto in Russia at present, why will he even consider doing that especially in a place like an office, whatever happens to his personal residence! He wanted free electricity now it will cost him a lot more than if he had just done it at home.

How haven't people inside his work notice that he is consuming the government's electricity for six months without anybody noticing? Unfortunate for him, some people have recognized his crime using free electricity through crypto mining and doing things unrelated to his job. But I assume that the judge won't go too far to his crime from doing a crypto mining farm inside his work.

[Japinat]

Let the judge handle his violation and his sanction will always depends on the existing law.
There's a clear violation since mining is his personal business, it's an abuse of power, he get his earning free of expenses by passing that on to the government.

What a silly officer, committing crimes but not using his brain properly.

[Oasisman]

Unless he asked permission and allowed to do that, there's no problem. But it's likely the opposite and what we're all thinking are correct about what he's done.

No one would ever allow such thing, in the first place that's against the rules of work ethics, you are not allowed to do other things while youre in your work shift, most specially inside the work place.
That's a direct stealing of government property, and there's no enough excuses If you're caught red handed.

I doubt, that's not a mining farm, It's too impossible not being noticed for 6 months considering the loud noise of the mining farm. He might be running a few Bitcoin miner.

[UserU]

Mining farm....
At the price of 4cents per kWh according to Knoema for that region, it gives a total of 1750 kWh per month consumed, that's not enough to feed two s9 miners.
Farm, lol!

Well, anything could be a farm if you're brave enough

[danherbias07]

Why would you start mining at the office?  
There are rules that needs to be followed when you are inside a working station.
Just like any other regular employees would follow.

Like no smartphones allowed, flash drive, etc.
Obviously guilty if there are evidences found.

Do you have the link for the news?

[UserU]

Why would you start mining at the office? 
There are rules that needs to be followed when you are inside a working station.
Just like any other regular employees would follow.

Like no smartphones allowed, flash drive, etc.
Obviously guilty if there are evidences found.

Do you have the link for the news?

https://decrypt.co/30743/russia-post-office-crypto-mining

Used the office PCs to mine apparently.

[stomachgrowls]

Exactly. What was that guy thinking about running an obvious farm without attracting some sort of attention.

I'm not convinced that he's THAT stupid for thinking that no one would notice a mining farm running. It's probably more of that he thinks no one is going to snitch him out, probably because he's a regional post office chief.

Anyway, the event OP's talking about: https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-police-arrest-former-post-office-branch-chief-for-mining-crypto-at-work

Pretty sure that he's aware that someone did already notice on the activity that he's been doing and i agree that since he's the chief on said branch then no

person would really have the courage to make complaints or even simple questions about on what he's been doing.

In talks about law then this do particular talks about abuse or theft since you dont really have the permission on using up resources towards you mining activity specially
if it doesnt really correlate into your work.So its no brainer that he would really need to face up the consequences.

[reliable]

Wow, he has stolen 70$ worth of electricity a month.

Crime is a crime and according to crime codes (yгoлoвный кoдeкc - in russian) it has no value. He will just pay an administrative fine of several thousand russian rubles and be free.

Misusing of power or of the office may be the strict law in some countries and considering such situations government is going to take the course due of action and accordingly charge the penalty and so on. Though it is always better not to do such kind of stuff on somebody else property which can ruin the things and future career.

[enhu]

Since he is a former chief, I'd like to honor how much he had spent his life serving the country, and to be the judge I'd just give him community service. We are always forgiving to our heroes    Where is the link to this news, I'm curious how big his farm before the verdict.

I'd like to know how much he had mined before and after the halving. It sure had been enjoying the free energy and earned coins.

edit: seen the link but no details to its news.

[Latviand]

Not the first time that we have heard high profile personalities in Russia abusing their privilege to mine cryptos, Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot'.

I just don't understand how russian authorities are that strict when it comes to cryptocurrency. Those Russian nuclear scientist that was arrested due to illegal mining of cryptocurrency should be investigated enough before filing a criminal case against them.

Those people are really wise and intelligent enough in making ways on how to use cryptocurrency even though it is prohibited in their country. No one is exempted when it comes to the laws of the government of Russia, that's why even high profile personalities can be arrested and put into jail once they don't have any permits to present even if they are working on that top-russian Nuclear Power Plant.

[Eugenar]

I don't have any knowledge about the law so I won't judge but the thing here is that he does something that is not related to his work but is it already considered as a crime so he has to be arrested by the police? The people who are included in that bitcoin mining should be also arrested.

[eaLiTy]

Information reaching out by a local news outlet RNS, state that a former chief of Russia post local branch has been arrested by the Russia police on suspicion of running a crypto mining farm inside the office for almost six months. During the period of his mining the federal service of Starvropol territory has spent about 30,000 Russia rubles.

If you're to be the judge, how will you handle this issue of abuse of power?

You do not need to be a judge to understand the seriousness of the issue, stealing power from your employer and that too from the government will land you in serious trouble let alone the job and the hefty fine you are going to pay and there were many in the past that were caught stealing electricity from their employer in the past especially in China and to be frank it is not even worth to do such activities as all the perils you make will be gone once you are caught and the chances are 99%.