"Shoot Him!": Dentist's Murder Suspect Arraigned

The family and friends of slain dentist Daniel Malakov yelled at murder suspect Mikhail Mallayev (pictured) in a Queens courtroom yesterday. Malakov was gunned down last year when he was dropping off his daughter to his ex-wife at a Queens playground. His brother yelled, "Hang him up!" as other yelled "Shoot him!" and "Take off his head!" when Mallayev left.

Malakov and his ex, Dr. Mazeltuv Borukhova, were embroiled in a bitter custody dispute over their daughter (Malakov was granted temporary custody). She denied having anything to do with the murder, but a State Senator testified in family court that Borukhova's sister asked the child would go if "something" happened to Malakov.

Police matched fingerprints from a homemade silencer left at the scene to those of Mallayev - a resident of Georgia and a relative by marriage of Borukhova. (How did the NYPD have Mallayev's prints? A 1994 fare beating arrest.) The Queens DA office revealed yesterday that Mallayev and Borukhova had exchanged 65 calls, including "one...placed from near the scene of the crime," leading up to killing. Mallayev claimed the calls were about medical problems, "I'm innocent. I didn't do this ugly thing." A medical problem that happened to be so close to the murder scene?

Mallayev was remanded without bail. Malakov's brother Gavril said, "I really think it's becoming more apparent it's [Borukhova] that hired him."

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By Jen Chung in News on January 18, 2008 2:51 PM

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johnieBK

Note to self:

If I'm about to commit a crime, leave the CELL PHONE HOME.

Even if you don't make a call and simply have it on, you can be tracked.

Snoopy

^^^ His real name is Mikhail "Miki No Chin" Mallayev.

dooWOP

Funny thing, those Russian mobsters don't look much different than the goombas most of us are familiar with.

Snoopy

All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Incest starts at home.

CR

"Crook"? More like "Murderer".

Was he romantically involved with the wife?

likesrudylikesbooty

He swindles investors in a development scheme, and buys a huge house with the ill-gotten loot.

Honorable mention for biggest dumbass crook of the year.

Tgirl

bet that angelic face had everyone fooled, tho

Jen Chung

A silencer with fingerprints, no less.

Papercutninja

what kind of half-assed hitman LEAVES THE SILENCER AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME?!

CR

Is this dude Russian mob?

JenChungsBaby

Wow, I had originally thought that the mother wasn't directly involved. But 65 (!!!) phone calls between the mother and the accused killer makes me think otherwise.