A well-known Hungarian politician allegedly used electricity in state institutions to produce bitcoin. AMB Crypto writes about this with reference to the local media.
Tamás Borká-Sás headed the Finance and Development Committee and was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party. After the visit of police officers with the search, which led to the confiscation of "several computers", presumably the Bitcoin miners, he immediately resigned.
According to an expert who advised the National Bureau of Investigation, the seized devices were also "possibly suitable for Ethereum extraction. The expert noted that the liners were located in an improvised wooden container, which posed a risk of fire.
According to the publication, other officials were shocked by reports about their colleague's activities. One of them stated: "In darqueba, the bitcoin miners, phishers, smugglers and arms dealers exchange money and produce currency. The politician appears to have been involved in these illegal activities, using stolen electricity paid for with public money.
Earlier, a case was filed against the former head of the Mineralnye Vody branch of Russian Post, who was suspected of mining cryptic currency using the company's energy resources.