The Home Office said on Friday, 16 October, that Stanislav Carpiuc, 28, had been removed from the country. He is under a re-entry ban and had been jailed for two years after being found guilty of conspiracy to damage property by fire.
Roman Lavrynovych, a 22-year-old Ukrainian builder, was sentenced to seven years after being convicted of damaging two properties by fire on 11 and 12 May 2025.
An account called 'El Money', reportedly linked to a Russian online sabotage network, offered Lavrynovych £3,000 in cryptocurrency if the blazes were filmed and reported in the news.
The Home Office said on Friday, 16 October, that Stanislav Carpiuc had been removed from the United Kingdom. Carpiuc, 28, is a Romanian national, and Mediapart reports that he was born in Ukraine. His deportation carries a re-entry ban. He was convicted in June 2026 of conspiracy to damage property by fire and sentenced to two years in prison. The Telegraph described him as one of two men found guilty of plotting to damage two houses linked to Sir Keir Starmer.
Carpiuc and Roman Lavrynovych, a 22-year-old Ukrainian builder, acted on orders from a Telegram account called 'El Money', which the court heard was reportedly tied to a Russian online sabotage network. The anonymous operator offered Lavrynovych £3,000 in cryptocurrency if the fires were filmed and reached the news. Carpiuc backed his friend and was due to help turn the payment into cash. Carpiuc's barrister, Shahid Rashid, told the court that his client's role was the financial one.
“His function was to realise the cryptocurrency.”
Rashid described his client as 'always the money man', and said Carpiuc would not have received any of the proceeds himself.
The court heard that the sequence began with a Toyota RAV4 once owned by Starmer, which was set alight. Later, the front doors of two houses in north London were set ablaze, one of them the former prime minister's home in Kentish Town, where his sister-in-law lived with her partner and daughter. A fire was also reported at an Islington property managed by a company previously linked to Starmer. Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson KC said the Islington blaze spread into the building's hallway and posed an obvious risk to those inside. The sister-in-law recalled hearing two loud bangs, then seeing an orange light at her front door, and described her fear at what could have happened had she not woken.
Lavrynovych was given seven years in prison after being convicted of damaging two properties by fire. The offences took place on 11 and 12 May 2025, and the court found he had been reckless as to whether life was endangered. His sentence was longer than the two years handed to Carpiuc. Both men were convicted of crimes connected to the same plot against properties tied to the former prime minister.
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Stanislav Carpiuc, convicted in June over fires at properties linked to former prime minister Keir Starmer, has been removed from the UK, the Home Office said on Friday, 16 October.
AI text based on reports by Mediapart, The Telegraph and The Independent. Published .