00:00Vacant shophouses in Perak had been turned into secret cryptocurrency mining hubs.
00:05Police say syndicates broke in, tapped into electricity illegally, and walked away with the profits.
00:12Perak Police Chief Commissioner Datuk Mohamed Alwi Zainal Abidin says the operation was uncovered following four raids on Monday.
00:20He says suspects allegedly targeted shophouses left vacant for long periods,
00:25breaking in to install mining machines that ran unsupervised while proceeds were transferred online.
00:32Three raids were conducted in Sungai Siput with Tanaga National Berhad.
00:37A 39-year-old man, who claimed to be the shophouse caretaker, was arrested but claimed he had no knowledge
00:44of the mining activity.
00:46A separate raid in Seri Iskandar found the premises had no official TNB meter.
00:52Instead, an electricity connection believed to have been illegally installed.
00:57No arrests have been made there yet.
01:00Police say a total of 168 mining machines, along with networking equipment and electrical cables, were seized across both operations.
01:09Investigations are ongoing under Section 427 of the Penal Code and Section 37, Subsection 1 of the Electricity Supply Act
01:181990.
01:20Commissioner Mohamed Alwi is advising property owners, especially of vacant or rented premises, to monitor them regularly to prevent misuse
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