{"id":29291,"date":"2025-05-29T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29291"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:31:45","slug":"russian-police-arrest-suspect-in-3-2m-illegal-mining-operation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29291","title":{"rendered":"Russian Police Arrest Suspect in $3.2M Illegal Mining Operation: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Russia police arrested a person alleged to have been involved in a crypto mining scam that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/crypto\/news\/6838661f9a7947a0c29488fd?from=newsfeed\">stole 270 million rubles<\/a> ($3.2 million) from 100 victims, RBC reported, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/38.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/news\/item\/65482476\">statement<\/a> from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk Region.<\/p>\n<p>A local resident called the police in February to say he handed an ASIC mining machine to someone claiming that they were running a &#8220;mining hotel,&#8221; with the promise of passive income. The 26-year-old suspect and two accomplices are alleged to have sold the equipment they received and also to have kept funds handed over the purchase of other mining machines.<\/p>\n<p>The police opened a criminal case of fraud against the suspect and continue to question the victims. The other members of the mining group are still wanted by authorities, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>A similar case occurred in 2022 when two people stole 2 million rubles after offering local citizens a fake mining hosting scheme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia police arrested a person alleged to have been involved in a crypto mining scam that stole 270 million rubles ($3.2 million) from 100 victims, RBC reported, citing a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk Region. A local resident called the police in February to say he handed an ASIC mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}