By Thai Newsroom Reporters
POLICE RAIDS ON a few illegal, makeshift facilities with arrays of computers for Bitcoin mining business in Chiang Mai are anticipated shortly in sustained measures to crack down on the power-squandering activity, police said today (June 6).
Following an earlier raid on a Bitcoin mining den in disguise of a deserted shophouse in the capital district of Chiang Mai, one other in San Sai district and another in the capital district of the northern province have been suspected where several dozens of computers, mainframes and hubs may have been operating in clandestine fashion.
The computers and other equipment used in crypto mining activity and seized as evidence had allegedly consumed as much as 100,000 baht in unpaid power bills monthly for about a year, the police said.
Though nobody had been arrested in the raid, the authorities are yet to bring suspects on the loose to justice, the police said.
Other suspected spots unfrequented by people in the provinces might be probably facilitating such illegal activity and yet to be raided sooner than later, the police said.
A few months earlier, a makeshift facility for illegal Bitcoin business in disguise of an abandoned factory in the capital district of Samut Sakhon and a deserted warehouse-turned-crypto mining den in Soi Dao district of Chanthaburi had been separately raided by police with dozens of computers, mainframes and hubs seized.
But suspected operators who had owed hundreds of thousands of baht in overdue power bills for their illegal business had been apparently alerted and escaped just before the police raids occurred.
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