Murillo Diosa Luis Alfonso, a Colombian who intended to blow up strategic targets in Romania at the instigation of a person residing in Russia, was definitively sentenced on Monday by the High Court of Cassation and Justice to six years in prison for attempted acts of sabotage.
The supreme court rejected the Colombian’s appeal, upholding the sentence given in June 2025 by the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
On November 13, 2024, the 34-year-old Colombian was indicted by DIICOT. Investigators claim that Murillo Diosa Luis Alfonso traveled to Romania in July 2024 with the intention of committing acts of sabotage at the instigation of a person from Russia.
He planned to blow up targets in a commercial area in Bragadiru, where there was a warehouse for recyclable waste, as well as two oil extraction wells and a natural gas regulation/measurement station.
Murillo was sent by a person with connections in the Russian Federation, and as soon as he arrived in Romania, he began to photograph and analyze the target area.
He stayed at a hotel in Bucharest, and in the following days, he went to Ilfov to conduct "reconnaissance": he searched for access and withdrawal routes, filmed, and photographed the targeted objectives.
His route was carefully documented: he flew from Colombia, through Spain and Greece, and landed in Romania on July 28, 2024.
Investigators say he also conducted online searches for easily procurable substances with which he could build explosive or incendiary devices.
He failed to carry out his plan due to police intervention, with the support of the SRI.
Shortly after his arrest, Russian Telegram channels attempted to spread disinformation, claiming that a fire in Bragadiru (Teleorman County) was caused by saboteurs as part of an attack on a supposed "logistics center for Ukraine."
Romanian authorities quickly debunked this falsehood, showing that the fire was caused by a simple short circuit and had no connection to any attack.