 In January 1948, the new communist regime arrested Mihail at Sinaia and took him to Bucharest for questioning.Manuscripts found in his home were particularly damning; these included, in the prosecutor's view, "a multitude of phrases containing insults and slanders addressed to the USSR and the Romanian regime".He was charged with sabotage alongside "a group of landowning saboteurs in Ilfov County" and held for two years.