"Through our recent national security casework, we're seeing an increasing number of who we would describe as proxies' being recruited by foreign intelligence services. Indeed, two young British men are awaiting sentencing after they were recruited by the Wagner Group effectively the Russian state to carry out an arson at a Ukrainian-linked warehouse. They are facing potentially lengthy custodial sentences, although, to be clear, today's arrests are in no way connected to that investigation."
"But anyone who might be contacted by and tempted into carrying out criminal activity on behalf of a foreign state here in the UK should think again. This kind of activity will be investigated and anyone found to be involved can expect to be prosecuted and there are potentially very serious consequences for those who are convicted. All three have been bailed while the investigation continues."
Three people — two men aged 41 and 46 and a 35-year-old woman — were arrested at two separate addresses in Grays, Essex, on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service. The suspects were taken to a London police station. The country to which the allegations relate is Russia. National security casework shows an increasing number of proxies being recruited by foreign intelligence services. Two young British men recruited by the Wagner Group to commit an arson at a Ukrainian-linked warehouse are awaiting sentencing, though the recent arrests are not connected to that case. Scotland Yard declined to disclose the suspects' nationalities.
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