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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mathilde Grandjean and Emily Pennink

Mysterious ‘El Money’ figure paid men to firebomb homes linked to Keir Starmer, court hears

A mysterious Russian-speaking contact known as “El Money” offered payment to three men to set fire to a car and two houses linked to Sir Keir Starmer, a court heard.

Ukrainians Roman Lavrynovych, 22, Petro Pochynok, 35, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, are charged over a series of fires in north London last spring.

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