On the watch: A TNB officer checking on a bitcoin mining premises.
PETALING JAYA: Bitcoin mining operators running their operations on stolen electricity and bribing electricity meter readers to help them hide their actions will soon have to pay the piper.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is zooming in on them and their crime which is causing financial losses in the billions of ringgit.
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