简而言之 内政部副部长告诉议会,马来西亚当局在 2022 年至 2026 年 5 月期间进行了 3,000 多次突袭,查获了超过 75,000 台加密矿机。 他说,这些行动由国家公用事业公司和警方联合开展,共逮捕 629 人。 加密货币交易在马来西亚是合法的,但依赖盗窃电力、篡改电表或未经许可的设置进行挖矿则不合法。 据国家通讯社马新社报道,内政部副部长拿督斯里沙姆苏尔安努尔博士周三向议会表示,马来西亚当局在 2022 年至 2026 年 5 月期间在全国范围内进行了 3,000 多次突击搜查,查获了超过 75,000 台加密货币采矿机。 他在回答国会下议院的提问时表示,在马来西亚皇家警察、国能公司(TNB)和地方当局的协调行动中,缉获了 629 人,并逮捕了 629 人。
三苏尔·安努尔表示,内政部正在扩大其执法方式,依靠情报收集和技术来标记可能的热点,然后再采取行动,以便“更快地做出反应并采取更精确的行动”。他将非法采矿的持续存在归因于对数字资产的强劲需求以及从波动的代币价格中获得的利润,同时强调潜在收益并不能成为偷电以降低运营成本等犯罪行为的借口。 马来西亚和加密货币 Shamsul Anuar 表示,马来西亚允许拥有和交易加密货币,尽管它不被视为法定货币。他补充说,当采矿依赖“未经授权的电力连接、篡改电表、破坏供电系统或在没有所需许可证的情况下进行运营”时,采矿就属于非法行为。 马来西亚证券委员会负责监管数字资产,而马来西亚中央银行则负责监督金融稳定、支付和反洗钱合规性。
而不是加密货币政策。采矿设备昼夜不停地运行,承受沉重、恒定的负载,操作员经常绕过或篡改仪表来隐藏消耗量,使得公用事业公司只有在计费和实际使用量出现差异时才能发现欺诈行为。 多年的突袭 最新的统计结果延续了已经持续多年的活动。 2025 年末,马来西亚能源部将五年来发现的约 14,000 个非法采矿点与约 11 亿美元的电力损失联系起来,并成立了一个委员会,由财政部、国家银行和国能联合追捕违法者。 执法有时是戏剧性的。警方不止一次用压路机压毁了缴获的钻机,其中包括 2024 年摧毁的数百台机器和 2021 年类似行动中摧毁的约 1,000 台机器。 马来西亚并不是该地区唯一的国家。其他地方的当局也采取了自己的镇压行动,从泰国拆除耗资数百万美元的采矿作业,到香港因将电力抽入电力钻机而被捕。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
In brief
Malaysian authorities have seized more than 75,000 crypto mining machines in over 3,000 raids between 2022 and May 2026, the Deputy Home Minister told parliament.
The operations, run with national utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad and the police, led to 629 arrests, he said.
Crypto trading is legal in Malaysia, but mining that relies on stolen electricity, tampered meters or unlicensed setups is not.
Malaysian authorities have seized more than 75,000 cryptocurrency mining machines in over 3,000 raids nationwide between 2022 and May 2026, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Shamsul Anuar told parliament on Wednesday, according to state news agency Bernama.
The seizures came alongside 629 arrests in coordinated operations involving the Royal Malaysia Police, state utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and local authorities, he said, responding to a question in the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of parliament.
Shamsul Anuar said the Home Ministry is expanding its enforcement approach, leaning on intelligence gathering and technology to flag likely hotspots before moving in so it can "respond faster and take more precise action." He attributed the persistence of illegal mining to strong demand for digital assets and the profits available from volatile token prices, while stressing that potential gains do not excuse crimes such as stealing electricity to cut running costs.
Malaysia and crypto
Owning and trading crypto is permitted in Malaysia, though it is not recognized as legal tender, Shamsul Anuar said. Mining crosses into illegality when it relies on “unauthorised electricity connections, tampering with meters, disrupting power supply systems or operating without the required licences,” he added.
The Securities Commission Malaysia regulates digital assets, while the central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, oversees financial stability, payments and anti-money-laundering compliance.
The focus of the crackdown is on electricity theft rather than crypto policy. Mining rigs run around the clock and draw heavy, constant loads, and operators frequently bypass or tamper with meters to hide the consumption, leaving utilities to catch the fraud only when billed and actual usage diverge.
Years of raids
The latest tally extends a campaign that has run for years. In late 2025, Malaysia's energy ministry linked around $1.1 billion in power losses to some 14,000 illegal mining sites uncovered over five years, and set up a committee drawing on the finance ministry, Bank Negara and TNB to pursue offenders.
Enforcement has at times been theatrical. Police have on more than one occasion crushed seized rigs with steamrollers, including hundreds of machines destroyed in 2024 and around 1,000 in a similar operation in 2021.
Malaysia is not alone in the region. Authorities elsewhere have mounted their own crackdowns, from a multimillion-dollar mining operation dismantled in Thailand to arrests in Hong Kong over electricity siphoned to power rigs.