PETALING JAYA:
Police today disposed of 208 Bitcoin mining machines and 210 boxes of smuggled cigarettes seized in enforcement operations.
Gua Musang police chief Sik Choon Foo said the cigarettes, seized between 2021 and 2023, were estimated to be worth RM1.8 million, Bernama reported.
He said the exhibits involved four investigation papers for which court proceedings had been completed.
“The duty-unpaid cigarettes are to be buried at the Gua Musang council’s waste disposal centre, while the Bitcoin mining machines have been handed over to a licensed e-waste management company,” he told reporters in Gua Musang today.
Sik said the Bitcoin mining machines were seized in operations conducted with Tenaga Nasional Bhd that uncovered illegal mining activities in several residential areas, including Bandar Utama. The syndicates had used vacant buildings as mining sites.
He said machines seized in separate operations last year remained under investigation and could not be disposed of yet.
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