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US Justice Department links defendants in Russian intelligence network case to arson attacks in Europe

The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against five alleged members of a Russian intelligence network and linked the case to a series of arson attacks that have been investigated since 2024 by authorities in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Lithuania. According to investigators, all five took part in a conspiracy to finance terrorism, and three of them were also accused of preparing the contract killing of a Russian dissident in the Washington area.
Among the accused are 63-year-old Yuri Khrameev, his brother Kirill Khrameev, Oemis Romagos Durutti, Yaidel Delgado Suarez, and Angel Eduardo Castro. Yuri Khrameev is a former commander of the Northwestern OMON, who, according to him, worked with Vladimir Putin in his youth and later received awards from him.
Investigators consider the Cuba-born Oemis Romagos Durutti, who lives in Russia, to be the link and say US authorities identify him as one of the network’s organizers. According to the American investigation, he was responsible for travel and payment of the operatives, as well as for collecting materials for preliminary surveillance.
Durutti was born in Cuba, later moved to Russia, and received a Russian passport in 2023. In June 2024, he transferred more than $1,000 in cryptocurrency to one of the network’s members and booked hotels for him in Prague and Poland, although the man was heading to the Czech Republic to carry out sabotage.
According to investigators, Durutti also sent this man suspected targets in Warsaw and received a video recording that may have been a rehearsal for the arson. The name of the operative is not given in the American indictment, but the described circumstances match the case of Colombian citizen Andres Alfonso de la Hosa de la Cruz.
The Polish prosecutor’s office believes that on May 23 and 30, 2024, he set fire to warehouses of building materials in Warsaw and Radom, and on June 6 he set fire to three buses in a Prague depot and then prepared another arson attack. A Czech court sentenced him to eight years in prison for terrorism.
In September 2024, according to the American indictment, Durutti coordinated an attack on a Lithuanian manufacturer of equipment for the Ukrainian army in Šiauliai and organized the operative’s travel and transport in Lithuania. This refers to two attempted arsons at TVC Solutions on September 17 and 22: the company stored mobile radio-electronic analysis stations worth about €1.5 million, intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The first group of operatives abandoned the arson because passersby appeared, and the members of the second believed the fire had started, but no damage was caused. In January 2026, Lithuania’s prosecutor’s office sent the case of six citizens of Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Colombia, and Spain to court, and Durutti was placed on an international wanted list as one of the alleged coordinators of the operation.
Another episode is linked by investigators to Romania: in a joint investigation by LRT, DW, and other European media, it is said that Durutti, under the name Dios, recruited former Colombian serviceman Luis Alfonso Murillo Diosu. He was supposed to set fire to a waste processing facility in July 2024, conducted reconnaissance there, but was detained before the sabotage; in 2025, a Romanian court sentenced him to six years in prison.

