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CEZ has discovered the biggest electricity theft in its history. The abuse was revealed on December 12, the company announced. CEZ teams and the police conducted inspections for electricity theft in Herakovo village, municipality. Bozhurishte, due to established consumption anomalies in the area. The established crime is in an outbuilding in the village cooperative farm, used as a farm for cryptocurrencies.
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During the inspections an illegal connection to a medium voltage network was found. It powers transformer machines illegally installed in the building, and serves more than 1,000 computer setups used to dig for cryptocurrencies. According to initial estimates, the company has suffered huge electricity losses, roughly equal to the monthly consumption of 4,250 families.
“The hourly consumption of the site was as much as 4-5 households pay monthly. According to the load measured at the time of the inspection, 40 thousand kilowatt hours per day were extracted from the site,” said Filip Yordanov, team leader. techniques “, CEZ – Electricity distribution.
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Upon entering the building, CEZ and Interior Ministry employees came across several computers searching for cryptocurrencies. A large amount of electricity was required to generate it, leading to the illegal connection to the grid.
“A little more than 500 are so-called ‘devices’ for digging cryptocurrencies. At the moment we have no detainees,” said Plamen Petkov, the district attorney for Slivnitsa.
The building is owned by a commercial company, according to the investigation. Owner Maria Shahin explained to NOVA that they planned to develop an essential oil business. However, the crisis forced them to look for a company to rent it out.
“A few months ago in September, we gave it to completely new people. We have seen them twice. “They are De Luxe International. They told us that they would make additives for some fuels; we shook hands, they looked completely normal,” Maria Shahin, owner of the property, told NOVA.
He also claims that they transferred the lots of electricity and water meters to the tenants. So far they have not had any problems with them. And employees in neighboring hallways say they haven’t seen workers there.
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CEZ and Interior Ministry teams worked through the night and the equipment found was seized by the police. At this stage, two charges have been filed: illegal connection to the electricity grid and theft of electricity.
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