 This time they blamed him with "assault on a candidate athlete".This sentence he served too (in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, in a special zone for former employees of the Justice- and Service Departements)

He was released in December 1998 and rehabilitated in 2001.Dmitry Yakubovskiy continued to work as a lawyer and defended, amongst other important businessmen, the ex-wife of the major of St.Petersburg.