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Crypto miners ‘stole B500,000 a month worth of electricity’

Computers and related equipment worth B5 million seized from two houses in Samut Prakan

Seized computers, routers, servers and other hardware for crypto mining are seen following a raid on two houses in Samut Prakan on Thursday. (Photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

SAMUT PRAKAN: Authorities have seized cryptocurrency mining hardware worth more than 5 million baht from two houses in Samut Prakan where electricity theft exceeded 500,000 baht a month.

Police did not say whether any people were arrested at the two locations that were raided.

Police and officials from the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) searched the two houses in Muang district on Friday afternoon after the MEA confirmed unusual use…

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