This a glib title for an allegedly serious plot being charged out of the Southern District of New York. The indictment chargies five people, allegedly working at the direction of Russian military intelligence, with conspiring to finance terrorism and, for three of them, to commit murder for hire. Two of the five are Cuban nationals.
The defendants are: Yuri Khrameev, 63, a retired Russian intelligence colonel; his son Kirill Khrameev, 27, allegedly an FSB officer; Oemis Romagoza Durruthy, 35, a Cuban national; Yaidel Delgado Suarez, 35, also Cuban, known as “Viking”; and Angel Eduardo Castro, 22, a Venezuelan national. All five remain abroad and none is in custody. Prosecutors allege that in 2026 the network recruited a Venezuelan immigrant in Brooklyn to surveil, and ultimately offered $40,000 to “eliminate,” a Russian dissident believed to be living near Washington, D.C. A parallel 2025 thread allegedly involved an American recruit near the Estonia-Russia border, offered roughly $25,000 to kill a man in Vilnius, Lithuania, for “telling lies about Russia,” and arson jobs when he declined. In 2024, the network is separately accused of directing actual arson and sabotage attacks on businesses and infrastructure in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Lithuania.
Which brings me to Mr. Romagoza. By the government’s account and international reporting, he has spent at least the last seven years in Petrozavodsk, Russia, teaching salsa at a studio called Made in Cuba. He married a Russian woman in 2022 and took her citizenship. By 2023, evidently under financial strain, he began recruiting on Facebook and Telegram—offering $1,500 and bonuses per “job” to Latin Americans chasing construction work in Poland or mercenary contracts in Ukraine—under the aliases “Adrian” and, I am not making this up, “Dios.” Spanish for God. He allegedly coordinated the attacks in Prague and Lithuania in 2024 and, as recently as November 2025, obtained surveillance footage of the Washington-area dissident’s home.
Less surprising to me than a Cuban giving himself the call sign God is that, as of yet, there is seemingly no tie to the dstrict. But there is something almost novelistic about a man who by day taught dance to Russian retirees and by night, under the name God, allegedly ran a transcontinental sabotage-and-recruitment operation for Russian Intelligence. How can that not have anything to do with Miami? Movie to feature Andy Garcia and Nestor Carbonell.
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