Russian Man Who Stole His Friend's Crypto Mining Equipment Sentenced
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Russian Man Who Stole His Friend's Crypto Mining Equipment Sentenced

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He later returned the rigs because he didn't understand how to use them.

Russian Man Who Stole His Friend's Crypto Mining Equipment Sentenced

A Russian man has been convicted after stealing cryptocurrency mining equipment worth 1.6 million rubles ($217,440.)

According to local prosecutors, the 34-year-old entered his friend’s garage and took the rigs without their consent.

It all turned out to be a pointless exercise anyway. As the police began a preliminary investigation into what happened, the man ended up returning everything — and admitted he couldn’t use the stolen goods because he lacked understanding about how crypto worked.

A court has now sentenced the man to a three-year suspended sentence, and he will also face a probationary period of three years.

All of this means that he will avoid seeing the inside of a jail cell, provided that he stays out of trouble in the future.

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