Feds tie slayings to husband-wife ID theft team
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
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New York (CNN) -- A man federal authorities say is part of a Brooklyn husband-and-wife identity theft team was charged with killing two of their victims, federal authorities said.
Dmitriy Yakovlev, 42, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He and his wife were arrested in August 2009 and charged with identity theft and bank fraud.
He is in custody. She is out on bail, their attorneys said.
Now Dmitriy Yakovlev is more serious charges in the slayings of two identity theft victims. His wife was not charged in connection with the slayings but she has been accused of cashing $40,000 drawn from one victim's account, according to Robert Nardoza, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Yakovlev was charged with the murder of Irina Malezhik, a Russian language translator who lived in Brooklyn and worked in the federal courts. She vanished in October 2007.
He also is accused in the slaying of Viktor Alekseyev, who disappeared in December 2005 and whose remains were found in New Jersey in 2006, according to federal authorities.
A third identity theft victim, Brooklyn resident Michael Klein, disappeared in November 2003 and has not been seen since.
In addition to Yakovlev's murder charges, he and his wife, Julia Yakovlev, 36, were charged in a superseding indictment Thursday with 17 counts of identity theft, bank fraud, credit card fraud and "effecting fraudulent transactions."
They are accused of illegally using the identities of three people between 2003 and 2007, according to the release.
Julie Yakovlev does not face any murder charges.
"Identity theft victims usually lose their money," NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement, "In this case, they allegedly lost their lives, too."
The couple was arrested and charged last year with identity theft after Malezhik went missing. She was last seen on October 15, 2007, leaving her apartment on a security video camera. Immediately after her disappearance, the couple began withdrawing money and purchasing various items in Malezhik's name, according to court documents.
"I'm skeptical as to the foundation and nature of charges," said Ken Russo, attorney for Dmitriy Yakovlev.
Julia Yakovlev's attorney, Alexei Grosshtern, would only tell CNN that there are "no new charges" against his client. He said any charges in the superseding indictment already existed in August 2009's original indictment.
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Comments made by
M60(3/6/2010 12:58:22 AM)
to this thing i would ya bad to people isn't something part of them holding them together though, EXACTLY!!! no need for a superiority just for that part. both rewarded but one allowed? this is a prime example of nobody's home in that little head of yours.
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Comments made by
ak47(3/6/2010 12:57:21 AM)
its something wrong with their conception(all get things that make us people from conception) which was put above them but problem is they all don't like it. the superiority is getting rewarded as if it isn't even the same behavior, so the 'superiority' made something that everybody doesn't like big ...
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vdt(3/6/2010 12:56:16 AM)
Farright1989. Stinks for you but what separates most of us from your view point is even though Garrido is evil there is a system of laws that goes on here. Might seem a nuisance to you but that what makes us a great country. You want torture and blood? Live in the Mid-East. You might like it. Or sho ...more
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