Later on Hoza was used by the Russian secret services in Chechnya, where he was duped by the pro-Russian gangster Ruslan Labazanov and took part in a revolt against former Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev. When he figured what he was dragged into, Hoza left Chechnya and was reportedly killed doing his 'business' at the 7th Car Service Station in Moscow, where he was shot by a hired killer on orders from the Russian Mafia shortly before the First Chechen War.