![Searchers at Sea Gate, Brooklyn, home of Dmitriy and Julia Yakovlev. They have been charged with stealing identity of missing translator Irina Malezhik. [photo: NY Daily News]](http://www.vinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/seagt.jpg "*Aug 17 - 00:05*")
Sea Gate, NY – Cops are tearing up the basement of a Brooklyn home in search for the body of a Russian court translator who mysteriously disappeared two years ago.
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The house, on Surf Avenue in Seagate, belongs to Dmitriy Yakovlev and his wife Julia, who have both been charged with stealing the identity of Irina Malezhik, 47.
The victim vanished from her Brighton Beach building on Oct. 15 2007, where she was last spotted on surveillance video.
That same day, the Yakovlevs cashed four checks in Malezhik’s name totaling $6,475, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Over the next two days, the couple used her credit card to make
$37,000 in cash withdrawals and purchases, including his-and-hers Franck Muller watches.
They are also accused of depositing forged checks in missing woman’s name.
Dmitriy Yakovlev has been held behind bars since last month. Julia Yakovlev is free on $500,000 bail.
wow that sounds sick!
Very sickening… What makes it even sicker is that they didn’t steal so much money…. Either there was much more money stolen or some other incentive.
I’m going to vomit….
Sea gate always has some sort of drama happening there…….
wouldn’t there be a bad smell if there was a decomposing body there?
As a long time Sea Gate homeowner, I can attest to the fact that due to being next to the water, there is always a moldy smell in everyone’s house. Tonight Seagate smelled from the stench of polluted ocean water, and stinking dead fish. If there were a dead body I doubt anyone would be able to differentiate on smells alone.
As far as drama goes, most of us residents complain that most of the time all of Seagate is so quiet, it appears dead. You can call it peaceful, if that is what you seek, or you can feel bored and lonely. You pay for the privilege of living in a gated community, the question is what are you keeping in and what are you keeping out?
There is and always has been a small amount of crime in Seagate. But it is much smaller due to the fact that there are only 1,000 families living there. And the police at the gate that we pay a fortune in taxes for are doing their job as far as making the streets safer. Of course, there will always be crime everywhere.
Sea Gate still remains a suburb of Boro Park.
I heard rumors that the NYPD called in a forensic anthropologist to work on the case that means they found some bones.
when a person is cemented in the ground it will not smell! what a horrible way to be burried.
the woman they are searching for was a translator for the federal court system she was working on cases involving the russian mafia. these owners are allegedly involved with that case