Brazilian police seized an illegal Bitcoin mining farm, confiscating 15 ASIC miners and 3 servers.
TechFlow News, August 02, according to Livecoins, during a routine inspection of a scrap yard in Belo Horizonte, the Military Police of Minas Gerais State, Brazil discovered an illegal Bitcoin mining farm on the second floor, seizing at least 15 ASIC miners (suspected to be Bitmain Antminer S17 series) and three servers on site, with equipment valued at over 200,000 reais.
Local energy company Cemig confirmed that the mining farm had been operating using stolen electricity for a long time, causing losses of approximately 60,000 reais per month. A 37-year-old employee was arrested on the spot for theft and handling stolen goods as he was unable to provide the source and invoices for the equipment, and two company executives are also under investigation. The police stated, "There may be some kind of criminal organization behind this," and are currently tracing the flow of cryptocurrency mined by the farm.
