DMITRIY YAKOVLEV SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR IDENTITY THEFT INVOLVING THREE MISSING OR MURDERED PERSONS
Dmitriy Yakovlev, a Russian immigrant and trained surgeon, was sentenced today to 30 years’ imprisonment following his March 2011 conviction for identity theft, bank and credit card fraud involving three Brooklyn residents who disappeared or were found murdered shortly after encounters with the defendant between 2003 and 2007. The sentencing proceeding was held before United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.