DOJ Charges Colonel Yuri Khrameev, Four Others In Assassination Plot
The FSB-linked network offered $40,000 to kill a US-based dissident and $25,000 for a hit in Lithuania.
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Sept. 15, 2026, charging five members of Russia's "RIS Network" intelligence operation.
- Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg: "These defendants allegedly operated as part of a global assassination network that reached into the United States."
- Yuri Khrameev, 63, a former Russian colonel, recruited his own FSB-officer son, Kirill, 27.
Why it matters: A spy service that recruits its own colonel's son to arrange murders is calling assassination foreign policy.
DOJ Office of Public Affairs press release ↗ · Sep 16, 20269/16/26