The Metropolitan Police said the trio were arrested at two separate addresses in Grays on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and taken to a police station in London. “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 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. Scotland Yard said it would not disclose the nationalities of those involved.