A court in Nalchik convicted a military man of fraud against wounded soldiers.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Alexander Pavlyukov to nine years in a maximum-security penal colony for fraud against wounded soldiers, whom he promised evacuation from the front lines for money.

The court found that in March 2025, while in a combat zone, "that is, in territory under martial law," Pavlyukov knew that two soldiers had been wounded. He offered to assist them in evacuating them from the front lines for a monetary reward, the Nalchik Garrison Military Court press service reported today on VKontakte.

The servicemen, who trusted him and agreed to Pavlyukov's terms, transferred funds to his bank account. One serviceman transferred him 500,000 rubles, and another 300,000 rubles, which Pavlyukov used at his own discretion in each case.

The convicted man fully admitted his guilt. When sentencing, the court took into account the man's repeated offenses, who signed the contract while serving a sentence for six counts of fraud.

Pavlyukov was found guilty of committing two crimes under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code, each 1 and sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security penal colony, the court's press service reported.

According to the case file on the court's website, Alexander Pavlyukov's case was submitted to the court on January 19, and the verdict was rendered at the first hearing, on January 28.

As a reminder, on September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilization. On October 28 of that year, the Minister of Defense reported to the president on its completion, but no corresponding decree followed. Lawyers have concluded that a presidential decree is not needed to end partial mobilization, Putin's press secretary explained.

Moreover, on December 12, 2023, the Maykop military court, in its verdict on a mobilized soldier who left his unit in June 2023, emphasized that "a partial mobilization was declared in the Russian Federation, which was not completed at the time the crime was committed."

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that a Baksan resident complained to the prosecutor's office because her two children and elderly parents, who were killed during the military operation, had not received their survivor's pension for over a year. Following an appeal from the prosecutor's office to the military registration and enlistment office, the deceased's family was assigned a pension and a recalculation was made.