A Georgia senator has reported to jail over allegedly lying regarding the stealing of cryptocurrency mining equipment worth $300,000, The Guardian reported Dec. 27.

Republican Michael Williams, who originally reported the alleged stealing in May, made a false police report and gave a false statement, court documents claim.

Williams had said servers with a worth of $300,000, that had been accustomed mine unnamed cryptocurrencies, had disappeared from his workplace premises, native daily news outlet Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Dec. 20.

Prosecutors are considering the likelihood that the stealing never occurred, and last month Williams was indicted by jury on 3 counts and subsequently handed himself in to custody.

A full verdict has yet to surface, however, with the suspect and his attorney waiting on prosecutors’ proof.

“Right now, our position is Mr. Williams didn't do this,” the attorney, A.J. Richman, said Dec. 26 quoted by another native outlet Gainesville Times. Richman added:

“We’re not extremely apprised of their proof yet. They haven’t disclosed that. I’m certain they'll shortly, but at this time, we don’t know what it's they’re saying apart from what the indictment says.”

Williams had antecedently co-sponsored a cryptocurrency payments bill for the Georgian Senate, whereas his campaigns were marked by a pronounced anti-immigrant policy that includes a “deportation bus” referring to Mexican immigrants that drew considerable condemnation.

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