Three men, including one of Romanian citizenship, having ties with Ukraine, committed a series of arson attacks on properties associated with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the name of a mysterious person known as “El Money”, who communicated in Russian, British prosecutors declared on Wednesday, in front of a London court.
Over the course of five days in May last year, the police were called to intervene in the case of fires at a house in North London linked to Starmer, at another nearby property where he had previously lived, and at a fire that engulfed a Toyota car that also belonged to the British leader.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson stated that the police identified Roman Lavrinovici, aged 22, as the person behind all the fires, and he was offered money to do this by someone using the name “El Money”, reports News ro quoting the Reuters agency.
“It is not for you to decide who is ‘El Money’ and what motive he might have had to coordinate the actions of these defendants against these properties and this car associated with the prime minister,” Atkinson told the jury at the Old Bailey court in London.
The Ukrainian Roman Lavrinovici is accused of arson with the intention of endangering life or of negligence regarding the possibility that life may be put at risk.
He and the other two defendants, his Ukrainian compatriot Petro Pocinok, aged 35, and the Romanian citizen Stanislav Carpiuc, aged 27, born in Ukraine, are also accused of conspiracy to commit arson. They deny the charges.