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Electricity stolen for bitcoin mining in Buri Ram

A notebook computer and other equipment believed to be used for mining bitcoin with stolen electricity are found when police raided a building in Muang district of Buri Ram on Sunday. (Photo: Surachai Piragsa)

BURI RAM: Police on Sunday searched a commercial building in Nang Rong district where electricity was suspected to have been stolen to operate bitcoin mining.

Armed with a warrant from the Nang Rong Court, the police searched the two storey-building with two shop fronts at the request of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA). 

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