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Irina Malezhik Disappearance: FBI Faces Suit for Damaging House in Dig for Body

Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 3:07 pm
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Irina Malezhik has been missing since 2007
​On October 15, 2007, Irina Malezhik emerged from her Brooklyn apartment building. The Ukrainian immigrant, who translated Russian in New York courts, hasn't been seen since.

That same day, $6,475 in forged checks from her account were deposited by Dmitriy and Julia Yakovlev of Coney Island. According to police, the couple also got a credit card in Malezhik's name, using it to burn through $37,000 in ATM withdrawals and going on a shopping spree for jewelry and clothes. The couple was charged with identity theft.

Since Malezhik worked on Russian Mafia cases, the FBI joined the investigation. Agents naturally assumed the Yakovlevs were involved in her disappearance. So earlier this month, the FBI and the NYPD conducted a week-long dig in the couple's basement, searching for Malezhik's body. They found no trace of the woman, but they did leave gaping cracks in the home's ceilings and walls, claim the Yakovlevs. The couple now plans to sue the agencies for restitution.

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