Spanish Police Raid Suburban House, Seize Over 100 Miners

The police raided a house in Toledo, Spain. In the house crypto mining operations were going on illegally.

After the ban of Crypto mining and trading activities in China. Many cases of Mining operations come into light where miners were doing their operations illegally. Here a same case can be seen where  Spanish police busted illegal mining operations. 

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Spain’s National Police’s twitter account shared a video & informed people that the Spanish police busted illegal crypto operations. 

“This is how we dismantled an illegal mining farm in criptomonedas (cryptocurrencies) in a chalet Toledo. It had more than 100 processors in operation and equipment for cooling and extraction of smoke and heat. The farm was maintained through an illegal connection to the electricity supply.”

Reportedly, A woman was behind all these operations and now she is now arrested. According to the charges, she may face punishment to live behind the bars for 3 month or may be one year also, as per charges. She used around 400 euros worth of electricity illegally.

The video shared in the tweet, shows that Police officers did a raid quickly so that they can catch the illegal mining operations red handed. According to police officers, they came to know about it because of the high electricity consumption and heat generated from the house. The whole mining operation was Illegal because the electricity used by the miners was for the house purpose. So to remain away from the extra charge on the electricity cost, miners were doing operations in the house. 

After the raid, Police officers seized around 100 miners and home cooling equipment. 

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