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Five men have been convicted over their involvement in the arson attack on a warehouse in east London .
The pair were arsonists for hire - referred to as "road men" in court - working indirectly for Russia 's Wagner Group .
The fire-setters' connection to Wagner was through a small-time drug dealer from Leicestershire , called Dylan Earl .
Plot to kidnap exiled Russian businessman Evgeny Chichvarkin targeted a Mayfair wine shop and restaurant.
Earl persuaded a man - who was not charged with any offence - to conduct some reconnaissance of the wine shop.
The shop was never attacked, as counter terrorism police disrupted the plot.
Earl was arrested by counter-terrorism detectives in Hinckley on 10 April .
Earl pleaded guilty to preparing acts of serious violence on behalf of a foreign power.
He also pleaded guilty to aggravated arson, possessing cocaine with intent to supply, and possessing 20,070 that was the proceeds of crime.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said generations would have described what the pair had done simply as "treason" Another man was cleared of two similar offences relating to both terrorist plots.
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