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Topic: Please share: Ukraine Security Service allegedly raid ForkLog, confiscate tech (Read 135 times)

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It is standard practice in Ukraine and Russia. Law enforcement under false pretenses to get a court decision on search and seizure of equipment for mining cryptocurrency. The fact that this room was an information resource, nobody cares. Now they are too long to investigate the matter and to extort a bribe. Every miner knows that time is money. Many cheaper to bribe than to receive the positive decision in court.

Well, what can we expect of this government? The government must have been hallucinating and just using its state power to get into an organization they don't like or one that can be giving them some form of threat now or in the future. It is quite risky to be doing business in this country and that is not doing well for the country as it needs foreign investors to help prop its economy. I am hoping that the people will not allow this kind of abuse to go on indefinitely.

The government can do anything under the pretense that they are doing something good or just implementing the law when in fact they have their own hidden agency. This is in fact, one of the many reasons that cryptocurrency rose into popularity...because the government has been a big failure to be protecting the people instead they are just good in protecting their own interest and self-vested agenda.
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It is standard practice in Ukraine and Russia. Law enforcement under false pretenses to get a court decision on search and seizure of equipment for mining cryptocurrency. The fact that this room was an information resource, nobody cares. Now they are too long to investigate the matter and to extort a bribe. Every miner knows that time is money. Many cheaper to bribe than to receive the positive decision in court.

this is not the first episode of the SBU or SSU (ukrainian law inforcement agency) raiding mining sites
there is no legal status of the cryptocurrencies there and you will have hard time to prove that you haven't been
sponsoring terorism,as they call  the rebels in Donetsk and Lugansk,eastern part of the country,terrorists
there were at least two instances of similar raids on bitcoin miners in the city of Odessa
they find a mining site by the increased amount of electricity consumed,then just raid it,confiscate equipment and you are lucky to not get encarcerated
but this time one of the officers even tried to steal bitcoins from an open wallet,this is something new even for the corrupt SBU agency-plain and utmost disregard of the laws
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It is standard practice in Ukraine and Russia. Law enforcement under false pretenses to get a court decision on search and seizure of equipment for mining cryptocurrency. The fact that this room was an information resource, nobody cares. Now they are too long to investigate the matter and to extort a bribe. Every miner knows that time is money. Many cheaper to bribe than to receive the positive decision in court.
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BlockStarter team
Dear cryptocommunity, can I ask you for help in spreading the news about the incident that happened with founders of Forklog.com – the biggest Russian-speaking blockchain online magazine? Could you please share the news on your social pages / Twitter / Facebook, etc.?

Here is an original link to the news:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ukraine-security-service-allegedly-raid-forklog-confiscate-tech-and-funds

Additionally, you can UPVOTE every entry on this page – in this way the more people will see the news:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockStarter/duplicates/7kxu43/ukraine_security_service_allegedly_raid_forklog/
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