IPOH: Police seized 48 bitcoin mining machines during a raid at a residential premises in Seri Iskandar today over suspected illegal electricity connections.
Perak Tengah district police chief superintendent Hafezul Helmi Hamzah said the operation was conducted by the district police headquarters' Criminal Investigation Division in collaboration with a Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) engineering team.
"Two fast Ethernet switches, an Internet router and a roll of cut electrical cable were also seized.
"The case is being investigated under Section 427 of the Penal Code and Section 31(1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1990," he said in a statement tonight.
