‘Malaysian authorities flatten 1069 mining rigs owned by electricity thieves’

According to the local news medium Dayak Daily, the Malaysian police has crushed 1069 crypto-asics with a road roller. They would come from several mining farms and their owners would have stolen the electricity needed for mining.

A video shows how the police of the Malaysian city of Miri proceed to destroy the mining computers. Dayak Daily has also a photo of the same scene that does not appear elsewhere on the web without their watermark. The editors of the medium were probably really present when it happened, but the site is the only original source that reports the scene.

Dayak Daily also writes that the devices together are worth just over a million euros. The devices would have been seized between February and April this year, spread over six raids.

A total of eight suspects have been arrested in this case. The fines they have received run up to 1,600 euros and they should also be jailed for up to eight months. The stolen energy to run the asics would have cost 1.7 million euros, according to Dayak Daily.