Police were called after a janitor noticed electrical wires, ductwork and computers that looked amiss.
A town official was running an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation from a crawl space under a school in the US state of Massachusetts, police say.
He is charged with fraudulent use of electricity and vandalising Cohasset High School, just outside Boston.Because of the heavy computer calculations needed to verify transactions, such mining uses huge amounts of electricity. Mr Quigley said the operation was being run from a remote crawl space that was discovered beneath Cohasset High School by its director of facilities."Detectives interviewed the director, who said that during a routine inspection of the school he noticed electrical wires, temporary ductwork, and numerous computers that seemed out of place," Mr Quigley said.
After a three-month investigation with the help of the US Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security, police identified the suspect as Mr Nahas.
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