“A resident of Zhytomyr region organized a mining farm, stealing electricity worth UAH 9 million. He was informed of a new suspicion.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: notification of the Office of the Prosecutor General
Literally: “A local resident turned his house into a mining farm, using industrial equipment, but paying according to the tariff for domestic consumers. To hide the real volumes of use, he installed a special device in the meter that allowed him to stop his accounting.
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Later, the man expanded his illegal business – he set up new farms in a rented workshop with his own substation, working according to the same scheme.
At a time when the country is living in conditions of an energy deficit due to massive attacks by the Russian Federation, the suspect caused losses of almost UAH 9 million to state-owned companies.”
Details: This man was notified of suspicion for a similar crime in November 2025. At that time, the investigation claimed that from October 2024 to June 2025, the suspect stole more than 365 thousand kWh of electricity and caused property damage in the amount of almost UAH 2.3 million.
Now the man has been informed of a new suspicion of fraud on a particularly large scale, theft of electricity and unauthorized interference in the work of electronic communication networks under martial law.