Bitcoin miners fined RM75,000, jailed 14 days each for bribing TNB employee


Goh How Keong (left) and Gan Tze Lee being taken to the Sessions Court in Seremban to be charged for the offence.

SEREMBAN: Two men were jailed 14 days and fined RM75,000 each by the Sessions Court here for bribing a Tenaga Nasional Bhd employee with RM15,000.

Goh How Keong, 50, and Gan Tze Lee, 49 were charged with bribing a Tenaga officer as inducement not to take action against them for stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency at several premises here and in Senawang.

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