Multiple landlords in Malaysia were caught in 'Electricity Theft Mining'! The electricity bill exceeded 2 million New Taiwan dollars, and selling the house is not enough to pay off the debt.

According to Sin Chew, a number of Malaysian homeowners held a press conference last month, saying that they rented out their houses to tenants but were stolen by tenants to mine, and tenants left hundreds of thousands of ringgit in electricity debts after they lost contact. (Synopsis: Road roller crushes "985 BTCMining Rigs", Malaysian police crack down on electricity theft Mining) (Background supplement: Miner rented Airbnb Mining to make $100,000 in three weeks, and the landlord was dumbfounded when collecting electricity bills. According to the Malaysian media "Sin Chew Net", Ms. Wei, the owner of the Malaysian Shizhaoyuan house, held a press conference on October 21, together with a number of people, accompanied by Asdaka state legislator Huang Tianrong, saying that she and a number of homeowners, renting out houses to tenants, but tenants stole electricity to engage in Cryptocurrency Mining activities, and eventually National Energy Company recovered huge electricity bills. Guoneng recovers huge electricity bills According to Ms. Wei's own statement, she rented out a double-storey townhouse in Sizhaoyuan to a Chinese tenant at a monthly rent of 900 Malaysian ringgit (about NT$6,600) in July last year, but after only two months of renting, she was reported by the national energy company, and the tenant disappeared after stopping paying the rent, while she faced electricity bills of up to RM260,000: In August last year, I was informed by a neighbor that when my house was inspected by TNB staff together with the police, Only then did they know that the house was used by tenants to illegally steal electricity. In addition, Ms. Wei said that she received a letter from TNB in February this year, saying that TNB had defaulted on up to RM260,000 in electricity bills, and the date of recovery was still from 2021 to 2023, to which Ms Wei said that she was very wronged: My house was used by tenants for electricity theft mining for only two months, and I myself was a victim, but Guoneng began to calculate electricity bills from 2021, which is simply illogical, like pouring salt on the wound. Selling a house is not enough to pay the electricity bill At the same time, another Ms. Lim also said that she is still renting out the house for the first time, but she has only received a total rent of RM5,000 for five months, but she has been recovered by Guoneng for RM276,000 (about NT$2.01 million) of electricity: My double-storey terraced house was bought in 2013 for RM298,000, but now it has been recovered by Guoneng for RM276,000 debt, even if I sell the house now, after deducting the bank mortgage, it is not enough to pay the electricity bill. Ms. Lin added that her house was rented to an Indian tenant in June last year, but later lost contact after the tenant stopped paying rent because of the high indoor temperature caused by mining: My house was exposed because the indoor temperature caused by the mining activity in the house was too high and caused a fire, and the tenant has stopped paying rent and lost contact since then. Councillor Wong Tin Wing: There have been more than 20 similar incidents in recent months In addition to Ms Ngai and Ms Lam, Councillor Wong Tin Wing also added that in recent months, there have been more than 20 incidents of similar tenants stealing electricity Mining to bring huge electricity bills to homeowners, of which the highest amount of electricity bills recovered by the State Energy exceeded RM800,000, and the lowest was 20,000. Huang Tianrong continued to point out that in these victim cases, although the owner of the house signed a lease, there were no witnesses present at the time of the contract, and the name of the meter user was not changed after the house was rented, resulting in such disputes: In the absence of changing the name of the meter user, once it is found to have stolen electricity, TNB has the right to recover the electricity bill from the meter holder. If, at the time of the contract, witnesses were present, evidence could be adduced to prove the existence of a tenant in the lease. Finally, Wong pointed out that mining activities are not illegal under Malaysian law, but electricity theft mining is illegal, so TNB will only take action against meter users, not tenants, and TNB generally does not cancel the recovery of electricity bills. Related Stories Road rollers dispatched! Crushing "30 million BTCMining Rig", Malaysia arrests 8 suspects for electricity theft Mining "3,800 PS4" stolen electricity mining! Creation of Ukraine's largest underground illegal CryptocurrencyMining Farm Huang Guochang questioned Zhuo Rongtai's official residence for "stealing BTC", experts calculated: three S21Mining Rigs can be put "Mining by many landlords in Malaysia"! The electricity bill broke NT$2 million, and the sale of the house was not enough" This article was first published in the moving area BlockTempo "Dynamic Trend in the Moving Area - The Most Influential Block Chain News Media".