According to a report from (Sin Chew Daily), multiple homeowners in Malaysia held a press conference last month, expressing that they rented out their properties to tenants but were subjected to tenants stealing electricity for cryptocurrency mining. After the tenants went missing, they were left with electricity bills amounting to hundreds of thousands of Ringgit. (Background: A road roller crushed '985 Bitcoin mining machines', Malaysian police cracked down on electricity theft mining) (Supplementary background: Miners rented Airbnb for three weeks and made a profit of $100,000, landlords were shocked by the electricity bill...) According to Malaysian media (Sin Chew Daily), a homeowner in Subang Jaya, Ms. Wei, held a press conference on October 21 with several other individuals, accompanied by State Assemblyman Huang Tianrong, stating that she and several homeowners rented their houses to tenants but were subjected to tenants stealing electricity for cryptocurrency mining activities, ultimately facing huge electricity bills pursued by the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). TNB pursued huge electricity bills According to Ms. Wei, she rented out a double-storey terrace house in Subang Jaya for a monthly rent of 900 Malaysian Ringgit (approximately 6,600 New Taiwan Dollars) to a Chinese tenant in July last year, but just two months into the rental, TNB broke in and reported her. The tenant stopped paying rent and went missing, leaving her facing an electricity bill of up to 260,000 Ringgit: I was notified by my neighbor in August last year that my house was broken into by TNB employees along with the police. When I went to check, I found out that the house was being used by the tenant for illegal electricity theft mining activities. Additionally, Ms. Wei stated that she received a letter from TNB in February this year, claiming that she had accumulated an overdue electricity bill of up to 260,000 Ringgit, and the calculation date was from 2021 to 2023. Ms. Wei expressed her grievances: My house was used by the tenant for electricity theft mining for only two months, and I am also a victim, yet TNB started calculating the electricity bill from 2021, which doesn't make sense at all, it's like rubbing salt into a wound. Selling the house is still not enough to pay the electricity bill At the same time, another Ms. Lin also stated that this was her first time renting out her house, but she only received a total of 5,000 Ringgit in rent over five months, yet TNB pursued her for 276,000 Ringgit (approximately 2 million New Taiwan Dollars) in electricity bills: I bought this double-storey terrace house for 298,000 Ringgit in 2013, yet now TNB is pursuing me for a debt of 276,000 Ringgit, even if I sell the house now, after deducting the bank mortgage, it would still not be enough to pay the electricity bill. Ms. Lin further explained that her house was rented out to an Indian tenant in June last year, but later due to mining activities causing high indoor temperatures leading to a fire hazard, the tenant also stopped paying rent and went missing: My house was exposed because of the indoor mining activities causing high temperatures and resulting in a fire hazard, and since then the tenant stopped paying rent and went missing. Assemblyman Huang Tianrong: Over 20 similar incidents have occurred in recent months Besides Ms. Wei and Ms. Lin, Assemblyman Huang Tianrong also added that in recent months, he has received reports of over 20 similar incidents where tenants stole electricity for mining, causing homeowners to face huge electricity bill debts, with the highest amount pursued by TNB exceeding 800,000 Ringgit, and the lowest being 20,000 Ringgit. Huang Tianrong further pointed out that in these victim cases, although homeowners signed rental agreements, there were no witnesses present at the time of signing, and after renting out the house, the electricity meter user name was not changed, leading to such disputes: In the absence of changing the electricity meter user name, once discovered stealing electricity, TNB has the right to pursue the electricity bill from the meter holder. If there had been witnesses present at the time of signing, it could prove that there were indeed tenants in the rental agreement. Finally, Huang Tianrong pointed out that under Malaysian law, mining activities are not illegal, but stealing electricity for mining is illegal, so TNB will only take action against the meter user and not the tenant, and TNB generally will not cancel the pursuit of electricity bills. Related Reports Road roller deployed! 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