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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mystery ‘El Money’ figure offered to pay men to set fire to property linked to Starmer, court hears

Close up images of the faces of the three men who were charged.
The three men (from left to right): Stanislav Carpiuc, Petro Pochynok and Roman Lavrynovych. Composite: Undated handout photo issued by the Counter Terrorism Policing

A series of arson attacks on property linked to Keir Starmer was masterminded by a Russian-speaking contact using the pseudonym “El Money”, a court has heard.

Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Petro Pochynok, 35, both from Ukraine, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, a Romanian national, sat with their heads bent towards interpreters as Duncan Atkinson KC, prosecuting, opened the trial over the arson attacks that took place in May last year.

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