Authorities of the Republic of Buryatia, in Russia, have uncovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation hidden inside a KamAZ truck that was diverting electricity intended for a nearby village.

Discovered during a routine inspection of the power line in the Pribaikalsky district, the unauthorized facility was extracting electricity from a 10-kilovolt line, enough to supply a small village, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.

Inside the truck, inspectors found 95 mining devices and a mobile transformer station. Two individuals believed to be connected to the operation fled the scene in an SUV before the police arrived.