The fog of deception has finally lifted over a most scandalous affair in our great city. In a courtroom that smelled of old parchment and grim destiny, the gavel fell hard upon Andrey Chepurnoy, the former chieftain of the 'War Invalids' society—an organization of men who had bled for the Crown—and his accomplice, one Valery Belyalov, a veteran of the Afghan campaigns.

The sentence was as cold as a winter night in a rookery: eleven years of hard labour for Chepurnoy and eight for Belyalov. The crime? A heist of monstrous proportions involving the 'Rus' Sanatorium.

As the inspectors and sleuths unearthed, back in the year 2017, these two scoundrels conspired to make off with a sprawling estate in the Ruza district. No mere cottage was this, but a complex of forty-eight properties! The sum of this plunder, according to the prosecution, exceeded three billion rubles—a king's ransom that would make even the most hardened East End fence blush with envy.

Of course, the wretches pleaded innocence to the very end. They stood before the magistrate, claiming they could not have stolen what they did not truly own, arguing they were merely the stewards of the estate. But the law is blind to such slippery excuses. In May of the year 2025, the Meshchansky Court cast them into irons, ending their run of luck.

Thus, those who claimed to protect the broken soldiers of the empire found themselves cast into the gloom of a prison cell, proving once more that no matter how high one climbs, the law eventually catches up with every rogue.