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A former Cohasset, Mass., school assistant principal has been accused of running a cryptocurrency mining operation inside a crawlspace at Cohasset High School. The Cohasset Police Department alleges that Nadeam Nahas stole nearly $18,000 in electricity to run the crypto mining scheme.
A report published by Boston’s WCVB network claims that Nadeam Nahas, a former school employee in Cohasset, Massachusetts, stole electricity from the district to mine cryptocurrency. Nahas is accused of setting up the operation at Cohasset High School’s crawl space, where several computers, ventilation units and connected wires were found.
Photographs taken by the Cohasset Police Department show that the mining equipment appears to be application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining rigs, possibly used for bitcoin mining. Police accuse Nahas of secretly mining cryptocurrency for eight months on the school’s campus, and the city’s IT director discovered the operation was a cryptomining operation.
Investigators, Cohasset police and members of the Department of Homeland Security were involved and removed the miners from the high school’s crawl space. The investigation lasted three months, and investigators estimate that approximately $17,492 in electricity was stolen.
Nahas is one of many people accused of stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrencies over the years. For example, in 2021, Malaysia seized 1,720 bitcoin mining machines during an electricity theft.
Law enforcement officials in Malaysia revealed last year that they had arrested more than 600 people for stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency in the previous two years. In 2020, a kennel owner in China was arrested for stealing power to run a bitcoin mining farm.
In Rotterdam, the Netherlands, two brothers were arrested in 2016 for stealing electricity to mine bitcoin and grow cannabis. WCVB reporter William Bennett reports that Nahas faces charges of school vandalism and fraudulent use of electrical resources.
Nahas is scheduled to appear in Quincy District Court for impeachment on February 23, 2023. According to Bennett, the accused former Cohasset school employee declined to comment on the case when reached by phone.
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