A Russian nuclear researcher has been jailed for three years for illegally mining cryptocurrency in the workplace.

Last Thursday, Andrei Rybkin and two other workers were convicted of exploiting labor resources for personal purposes. According Medusa, a Russian news website.

The three exploited unused computers and a local network to mine cryptocurrency between May and September 2017, and most of their activities were done at night.

Rybkin was also ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles ($3,112).

Russian investigators estimated that the damage to the government-run facility exceeded $15,000.

Last month, in a similar case, workers at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant were arrested after the plant’s equipment was used to mine cryptocurrency.

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For information, in Russia, cryptocurrencies are treated in an unclear manner

The Russian government sometimes deals with adoption and incubation and sometimes passes legislation to restrict it.

This week it emerged that the Russian government could block Facebook and Telegram if the United States decided to ban the launch of Libra.

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Information Technology, Dmitry Peskov, stated:

That if Libra begins without adequate monitoring measures, the “likelihood of Facebook ban” will increase significantly in Russia.

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