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UNCOVERED: Thousands of illegal cryptocurrency mining units seized | History Defined

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin elaborates on illegal cryptocurrency mining and about 3,500 mining devices that illegally consumed electricity and were seized recently from 41 rented buildings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi, at the Department of Special Investigation on Wednesday. (Photo: DSI)

Special investigators have seized about 3,500 illegal cryptocurrency-mining units operating from rented buildings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi and stealing vast amounts of electricity.

The crypto miners were connected directly to outside power lines and over the past two years had illegally drained about 500 million baht's worth of electricitiy from the state grid, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Wednesday.

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