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GEORGE TOWN, March 5 Police and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) carried out an integrated operation and successfully clamped down on the theft of electricity supply for conducting Bitcoin mining activities at four premises, near here, yesterday.
Penang CID chief SAC Rahimi Mohd Ra’ais said six men, aged between 28 and 51, were nabbed for stealing electricity by making illegal connections without going through a meter and not being registered with TNB in an operation in Taman Seri Delima and the Juru Jaya Business Centre, Bukit Mertajam, from 4pm.
GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): Police and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) carried out an integrated operation and successfully clamped down on the theft of electricity to conduct Bitcoin mining activities at four premises near here on Thursday (March 4).
Penang CID chief SAC Rahimi Mohd Ra’ais said six men aged between 28 and 51 were nabbed for stealing electricity by making illegal connections without going through a meter and not being registered with TNB in an operation in Taman Seri Delima and the Juru Jaya Business Centre in Bukit Mertajam from 4 pm. The police and TNB raided the four shophouses following intelligence and monitoring and found illegal connections at all four premises. Police personnel also seized numerous equipment, including 322 Bitcoin mining machines, cellphones (five), laptops (three) modem (seven), hundreds of electrical cables and two cars, ” he said in a statement.