After serving in the French Foreign Legion, the Brazilian Military Police and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, he became nationally known in Brazil for his arrest during the 2014 FIFA World Cup protests, afterwards going to the Luhansk People's Republic, where he fought for Russia and became a senior lieutenant for the Prizrak Brigade.

[9] On occasion, Lusvarghi reported to have been motivated by family links to the Russian people, plus aversion to liberalism and NATO's advances, specially representing the interests of the United States and the European Union.

[8][11] On October 6, 2016, Lusvarghi was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine in the Boryspil International Airport, having been attracted by supposed job opportunities in the Omega company and intercepted in layover.

[8][17][18][19] Investigations by the Brazilian independent magazine Opera claimed the company had among its clients the Maximum Directory of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and that a preventive detention warrant had been emitted in Kyiv two days before he arrived the country.

[20] On January 25, 2017, Lusvarghi was condemned to thirteen years in prison and forfeiture for terrorism and creation of an illegal paramilitary, in a polemical condemnation which represented the first process against a foreigner for such crimes in the country, drawing attention from the Ukrainian lawyer Valentin Rybin, who started to advocate for the ex-military, disclosing that his client had confessed under torture, which Lusvarghi had himself alleged in private letters, and also had been forced to make statements against his own will, as opposed to what the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had claimed before.

[19][22][25] With his passport retained, Lusvarghi started to work for and live in the Monastery of Holy Intercession, in the Holosiivskyi National Nature Park, converting from Ásatrú to Orthodox Christianity.

After being found by Radio Svoboda in late April,[21][23][26][27] however, he took shelter in the Brazilian embassy, in which outskirts he was captured on 4 May by far-right groups Azov Battalion and C14 and taken to authorities, attacking him in action transmitted live on Facebook by Serhi Filimonov and leaving him at the doorstep of the Security Service of Ukraine.