A deep dive into Malaysia's four-year enforcement campaign notes that tens of thousands of seized rigs and hundreds of arrests haven't slowed the flow of used mining hardware into the country's power grid. Older machines pushed out of profitability elsewhere keep landing in jurisdictions where electricity theft still pencils out, even as better detection tools turn up more cases.
July 21, 2026
Malaysia's Mining Raids Keep Growing, and So Does the Argument Over Whether They're Working
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