In brief
- Mexican federal prosecutors, the Navy and Puebla state police raided a property in Tlaola, in the state’s remote Sierra Norte.
- Some 300 crypto mining rigs were seized in the operation.
- The operation drew power illegally from a complex fed by the Nuevo Necaxa dam.
Mexican federal prosecutors, the Navy and Puebla state police have seized 300 mining machines from a property in the Sierra Norte that was drawing electricity illegally from a federal hydroelectric complex, the state security ministry said on Sunday.
Alongside the rigs, officers took transformers, medium-voltage terminals and working satellite internet antennas from the site in Tlaola, a municipality of roughly 20,000 people. El País and Mexico News Daily describe the…
