The police had long suspected that somewhere on the empire’s outskirts there exists a special criminal enterprise helping gangsters launder marked money and valuable securities. The detectives called it the "Big Laundromat." As soon as the police department got a thread leading to Tiflis, Lykov set off for the Caucasus to conduct an inquiry… On the spot it turned out that the Tiflis treasury’s services for laundering stolen money were used by swindlers, bandits, and terrorists from all over the country. The investigation by the guest from the capital didn’t please the leaders of the "Laundromat." The moment Lykov started the inquiry, important witnesses began dying one after another. Someone was clearly leading the investigator off the right path… and guiding him straight to death.