Rosseti has announced that 94% of the electricity stolen in the Republic of Ingushes is due to illegal mining activities.
Rosseti – Owned by the State – Claimed that the Illegal Metal in One of the Most Prominent Regions of Bitcoin Mining in the Republic of Ingoshia Stole Its Value Of About $ 4.3 Million of Electricity During the First Half of 2025. Company in the North Caucasus, The Illegal Metal was considering responsible for More than 94% of the Total Stolen Electric Power in the Republic During the First of the Year.
The illegal Bitcoin piece in Russia “flies 35.4 million kilowatt hours”
The company said that the total volume of consumption not recorded in the Republic of Ingoshaya during the same period amounted to 37.5 million kilowatt hours, adding that the value of this energy exceeded $ 4.4 million.
In addition, the company equipped with energy said that most of this consumption was the continuation of the work of illegal digital currencies, which stole 35.4 million kilowatt hours of the network, noting that the largest part of flying energy was affiliated with the activities of four large “illegal mining companies”. The company explained that it had closed all these companies and confiscated 450 mining devices.
In the first half, the Esushenergo Electricity Company (Esushendergo) said that its technical teams had monitored 177 cases of illegal use of electricity in the Republic.
Use of drones to pursue illegal metal
Digital exploitation is illegal during the winter months in the Republic of Ingushes until March 15, 2031 and was also prohibited in the neighboring republics of the North Caucasus.
However, Bitcoin is still widespread throughout the region, and the mining is blamed for provoking a series of power failures in Ingoshia. In the neighboring Republic of Abkhazia, the observers reported that the sounds of “tinnitus” filled entire villages.
In February, the energy engineers of the Republic of Ingushes warned that the illegal extraction of digital money poses a “great danger which could lead to accidents and power outages”.
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In the Republic of Dagestan, energy companies have responded by providing bonuses to their employees who discover secret mining companies, and Russian energy companies have launched new systems based on information technologies to pursue illegal minerals, including drones equipped with thermal cameras.
Bitcoin is the focus axis
Russian laws indicate that companies and individuals can operate digital currencies without informing the competent tax authorities, provided that their consumption does not exceed 6,000 kilowatts of electricity per month. According to new legislative proposals, industrial employees who are not registered with the federal tax administration can incur criminal sanctions.
For their part, sector officials claim that around 90% of industrial mining activity in Russia focuses on Bitcoin.
The post-electricity flight of $ 4.3 million by two illegal metals for Bitcoin-BTC in a Russian mining area during the first half of 2025 apppet first on Arab cryptonews.
