GEORGE TOWN: Police and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) carried out an integrated operation and successfully clamped down on the theft of electricity supply for conducting bitcoin mining activities at four premises, near here, yesterday.

Penang CID chief SAC Rahimi Mohd Ra’ais said six men, aged between 28 and 51, were nabbed for stealing electricity by making illegal connections without going through a meter and not being registered with TNB in an operation in Taman Seri Delima and the Juru Jaya Business Centre, Bukit Mertajam, from 4pm.