Employee arrested for mining crypto by stealing 6 million worth of electricity from Serbia's power company EPS

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Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), the Criminal Police Directorate, on the order of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, have arrested J.G. (59) from Zrenjanin.

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J.G. is suspected of committing the criminal offense of abuse of his position as a responsible person.

The suspect is an employee of the Zrenjanin branch of the state-owned power company EPS, and he is believed to have, from January 2020 to May 2021, used the official premises and the electricity from one of the plants of this company, in order to connect private computer equipment for "cryptocurrency mining."

In this way he unlawfully gained money, and incurred losses to the company amounting to 6,378,954 dinars.

The suspect is now detained for up to 48 hours, after which he will be brought before the prosecutor along with a criminal complaint.

(Telegraf.rs)