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A group of police officers is suspected of stealing equipment from Russian miners. They seized dozens of computers and other "hardware", but never brought it to the warehouse with evidence. It settled in a private hangar, where it subsequently evaporated. A criminal case has been opened.
Cops and thieves
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) initiated a criminal case on the fact of the loss of mining equipment seized by the police from Russians. In total, about 70 computers and several pieces of related equipment disappeared. All this equipment was shipped not to a warehouse with evidence for further investigation, but to a private hangar located in a shopping center, after which it disappeared without a trace. At the time of publication of the material, the location of the stolen equipment was not established.
By the decision of the investigator of the Naro-Fominsk department of the GSU TFR in the Moscow region, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence). The penalty for its violation is a fine of up to 120 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to one year. Also, a convicted person can be charged with compulsory labor for up to 360 hours, correctional labor for up to one year, or arrest for up to three months.
At the time of publication of the material, the criminal case did not contain any names or surnames of suspects in the commission of a crime – they are simply referred to as"officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs". According to Kommersant, specific suspects may be added to the list in the near future.
It is worth noting that this is the third criminal case in this history. Sanctions for the other two are very serious prison terms.
Beginning of the story
The chain of events that led to the initiation of three criminal cases begins on April 1, 2022. On this day, according to the materials of the investigation, unnamed operational officers of the criminal investigation department received some "operational information", according to which someone is engaged in stealing electricity within the city district of the Voskhod-1 SNT. The source of this information is not disclosed.
Upon arrival at the site, the police found a number of buildings at the site No. 135, to which electric cables were stretched, and the electricity metering device (meter) at the substation serving the SNT was disabled.
Opening the cabins, the police found several dozen computers that were mining cryptocurrency. All the "hardware", as it turned out later, was placed on the territory of the site under storage agreements-they were concluded between the owners of this equipment and a citizen who rented plot No. 135 from the wife of the chairman of the SNT Alexander Ponomarev.
No need for extra witnesses
What is happening at the site was recorded by video cameras, which the police deactivated. Why this was done, it is not reported, the person associated with the site managed to see that people in uniform arrived on its territory, and hurried to report to the SNT in person.
When he arrived, the equipment from the cabins almost migrated to the body of the Gazelle. The police recommended that the owner of the cabins go to the Department of Internal Affairs and give evidence, where they conducted a survey and told about the reasons for their visit, that is, about the message about the fact of theft of electricity.
First criminal case
Two weeks after these events, the first criminal case in this history was initiated – it was initiated by the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Naro-Fominsk city District Artem Ruppa, and it was a case under Part 2 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing property damage to the owner or other owner of property by deception or abuse of trust in the absence of signs of theft committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group and causing particularly serious damage). Such a crime is punishable by forced labor for a term of up to five years with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to two years or by deprivation of liberty for a term of up to five years with a fine of up to 80 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to six months or without it, and with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to two years.
According to Kommersant, with reference to Dmitry Stasyuk, managing partner of the Moscow law firm Zakon, in the decision to initiate this case, Mosoblenergo JSC is listed in the column "victims", but it does not supply electricity to Voskhod-1 SNT – this is handled by Mosenergosbyt JSC under an official contract. The lawyer received a certificate from Mosenergosbyt JSC stating that there were no penalty charges for the period of time mentioned in the decision to initiate a criminal case.
According to the publication, the case shows a loss of 700 thousand rubles. - approximately this amount could have been spent on electricity in the case of a mining farm on site No. 135 in 24/7 mode in the period from December 2021 to April 2022. However, the equipment was delivered to the territory of the SNT only at the end of January 2022 and was operated in a test mode until April 2022.
Second criminal case
According to the owners of the equipment removed from the site, they did not do anything illegal. Indeed, as of March 2024, mining was not a crime in Russia, neither administrative, nor even criminal. The person who arrived at the site and found the equipment loading in the Gazelle is a real estate entrepreneur, and in this story he is the landlord – a contract for renting cabins was signed with him. According to this agreement, tenants are required to pay electricity bills that are provided to them by the owners of plot No. 135.
In total, the police removed 68 computers from the station – their owner repeatedly demanded to return his property to him, but each time he was refused this. Later it turned out that the police did not begin to issue the exported equipment as evidence – the "iron" did not reach the warehouse with evidence at all.
Moreover, the police officers who arrived at the station did not describe the seized property, nor did they seal it. According to Kommersant, they unloaded all the computers in one of the hangars of the Start shopping center.
The police have an explanation for these actions. According to the case file, they simply could not find a room for storing such a large amount of equipment, as a result of which the head of the criminal investigation Department of the Department of Internal Affairs, Vyacheslav Orlikov, verbally, that is, without any documentary confirmation, gave all the "hardware" to the responsible storage of "IP Saakov A. A.". The investigator leading this case did not have any information about opportunities to find a specialist to examine the equipment. He decided to appoint an expert examination without him, after which the room to which the police took the equipment was opened. However, the required PCs were not there – they were taken to an unknown destination.
This was the reason for the initiation of a second criminal case in this story, this time under Part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft). The penalty is as follows: a fine of 100 to 500 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of one to three years, or by forced labor for up to five years with or without restriction of liberty for up to one and a half years, or by deprivation of liberty for up to six years with a fine of up to 80 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to six months or without it and with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to one and a half years.
"This information was hidden from us for 11 months, we were informed that a computer-technical examination was scheduled in the case, after which the issue of returning the equipment to the owner will be resolved," lawyer Wilhelm Kapasovsky told the publication, adding that later the investigator allowed the equipment to be taken away, since the examination, according to him, was completed. completed.
Since the necessary "hardware" was not in the warehouse, its owner hastened to contact the TFR and the prosecutor's office. The result of this was the initiation of the third criminal case - on negligence.
Cops and thieves
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) initiated a criminal case on the fact of the loss of mining equipment seized by the police from Russians. In total, about 70 computers and several pieces of related equipment disappeared. All this equipment was shipped not to a warehouse with evidence for further investigation, but to a private hangar located in a shopping center, after which it disappeared without a trace. At the time of publication of the material, the location of the stolen equipment was not established.
By the decision of the investigator of the Naro-Fominsk department of the GSU TFR in the Moscow region, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence). The penalty for its violation is a fine of up to 120 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to one year. Also, a convicted person can be charged with compulsory labor for up to 360 hours, correctional labor for up to one year, or arrest for up to three months.
At the time of publication of the material, the criminal case did not contain any names or surnames of suspects in the commission of a crime – they are simply referred to as"officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs". According to Kommersant, specific suspects may be added to the list in the near future.
It is worth noting that this is the third criminal case in this history. Sanctions for the other two are very serious prison terms.
Beginning of the story
The chain of events that led to the initiation of three criminal cases begins on April 1, 2022. On this day, according to the materials of the investigation, unnamed operational officers of the criminal investigation department received some "operational information", according to which someone is engaged in stealing electricity within the city district of the Voskhod-1 SNT. The source of this information is not disclosed.
Upon arrival at the site, the police found a number of buildings at the site No. 135, to which electric cables were stretched, and the electricity metering device (meter) at the substation serving the SNT was disabled.
Opening the cabins, the police found several dozen computers that were mining cryptocurrency. All the "hardware", as it turned out later, was placed on the territory of the site under storage agreements-they were concluded between the owners of this equipment and a citizen who rented plot No. 135 from the wife of the chairman of the SNT Alexander Ponomarev.
No need for extra witnesses
What is happening at the site was recorded by video cameras, which the police deactivated. Why this was done, it is not reported, the person associated with the site managed to see that people in uniform arrived on its territory, and hurried to report to the SNT in person.
When he arrived, the equipment from the cabins almost migrated to the body of the Gazelle. The police recommended that the owner of the cabins go to the Department of Internal Affairs and give evidence, where they conducted a survey and told about the reasons for their visit, that is, about the message about the fact of theft of electricity.
First criminal case
Two weeks after these events, the first criminal case in this history was initiated – it was initiated by the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Naro-Fominsk city District Artem Ruppa, and it was a case under Part 2 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing property damage to the owner or other owner of property by deception or abuse of trust in the absence of signs of theft committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group and causing particularly serious damage). Such a crime is punishable by forced labor for a term of up to five years with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to two years or by deprivation of liberty for a term of up to five years with a fine of up to 80 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to six months or without it, and with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to two years.
According to Kommersant, with reference to Dmitry Stasyuk, managing partner of the Moscow law firm Zakon, in the decision to initiate this case, Mosoblenergo JSC is listed in the column "victims", but it does not supply electricity to Voskhod-1 SNT – this is handled by Mosenergosbyt JSC under an official contract. The lawyer received a certificate from Mosenergosbyt JSC stating that there were no penalty charges for the period of time mentioned in the decision to initiate a criminal case.
According to the publication, the case shows a loss of 700 thousand rubles. - approximately this amount could have been spent on electricity in the case of a mining farm on site No. 135 in 24/7 mode in the period from December 2021 to April 2022. However, the equipment was delivered to the territory of the SNT only at the end of January 2022 and was operated in a test mode until April 2022.
Second criminal case
According to the owners of the equipment removed from the site, they did not do anything illegal. Indeed, as of March 2024, mining was not a crime in Russia, neither administrative, nor even criminal. The person who arrived at the site and found the equipment loading in the Gazelle is a real estate entrepreneur, and in this story he is the landlord – a contract for renting cabins was signed with him. According to this agreement, tenants are required to pay electricity bills that are provided to them by the owners of plot No. 135.
In total, the police removed 68 computers from the station – their owner repeatedly demanded to return his property to him, but each time he was refused this. Later it turned out that the police did not begin to issue the exported equipment as evidence – the "iron" did not reach the warehouse with evidence at all.
Moreover, the police officers who arrived at the station did not describe the seized property, nor did they seal it. According to Kommersant, they unloaded all the computers in one of the hangars of the Start shopping center.
The police have an explanation for these actions. According to the case file, they simply could not find a room for storing such a large amount of equipment, as a result of which the head of the criminal investigation Department of the Department of Internal Affairs, Vyacheslav Orlikov, verbally, that is, without any documentary confirmation, gave all the "hardware" to the responsible storage of "IP Saakov A. A.". The investigator leading this case did not have any information about opportunities to find a specialist to examine the equipment. He decided to appoint an expert examination without him, after which the room to which the police took the equipment was opened. However, the required PCs were not there – they were taken to an unknown destination.
This was the reason for the initiation of a second criminal case in this story, this time under Part 3 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (theft). The penalty is as follows: a fine of 100 to 500 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of one to three years, or by forced labor for up to five years with or without restriction of liberty for up to one and a half years, or by deprivation of liberty for up to six years with a fine of up to 80 thousand rubles. or in the amount of the convicted person's salary or other income for a period of up to six months or without it and with or without restriction of liberty for a term of up to one and a half years.
"This information was hidden from us for 11 months, we were informed that a computer-technical examination was scheduled in the case, after which the issue of returning the equipment to the owner will be resolved," lawyer Wilhelm Kapasovsky told the publication, adding that later the investigator allowed the equipment to be taken away, since the examination, according to him, was completed. completed.
Since the necessary "hardware" was not in the warehouse, its owner hastened to contact the TFR and the prosecutor's office. The result of this was the initiation of the third criminal case - on negligence.
