Man is just taking advantage of a system that is more than obviously full of holes and corrupt to the core, but that is the reality of a country like Ukraine. The country has been in a very difficult situation for several years, and now there is a lot of talk about a new military conflict given what is happening on their eastern border.
I think there are a lot of things like that in countries like Ukraine, especially Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan - and I wouldn't be surprised if the situation is better in Romania or Bulgaria and even further west in the Balkans. I am thinking in particular of the theft of electricity used for crypto mining.
Last week, electricity distribution company CEZ Distribution Bulgaria, a subsidiary of Czech CEZ, disclosed an illegal facility where dozens of computers were used to mine cryptocurrency powered by electricity stolen from the network. The Prosecutor’s Office and the Bulgarian Interior Ministry are continuing the investigation into the large theft of electricity in the Sofia village of Herakovo.
Local Prosecutor Plamen Petkov said that the offenders used over 500 computers to mine cryptocurrency, located in two halls, and the entire power supply was from the illegal connection to the network. No arrests have been made so far. The prosecution said they could not yet assess whether it was an organized crime group.