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Three men have been found guilty of carrying out an arson attack on a warehouse in east London, which prosecutors said was orchestrated by individuals linked to Russia’s paramilitary Wagner group.
The verdicts were delivered by a jury at London’s Old Bailey on Tuesday. The jurors found Nii Kojo Mensah, 23, Jakeem Rose, 23, and Ugnius Asmena, 20, guilty of aggravated arson.
The attack in March 2024 targeted the warehouse units of Oddisey, a company that has been shipping humanitarian aid and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite technology to Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
Prosecutors have since the start of the case alleged the attack was ordered by people linked to the Kremlin’s paramilitary Wagner group, who reached the defendants through a shadowy network of chat forums on Russian social network Telegram.
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