Metropolitan Police/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A British businessman at the centre of a money-laundering investigation was jailed on Friday for more than eight years for targeting two lawyers with fake bombs in the heart of London's legal district. Prosecutors said Nuttall orchestrated the plot with his driver Michael Sode, 59, and former soldier Michael Broddle, 47, who planted devices which were designed to look like genuine explosives. Broddle had previously conducted a six-month surveillance operation against Sutcliffe, Jeavons and their families, she said. Nuttall and Sode were both convicted of two counts of conspiracy to plant the devices and conspiracy to transfer criminal property, relating to payments made to Broddle. Broddle had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to plant the devices and two counts of possession of an explosive substance.

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Persons: Jonathan Nuttall, Prosecutors, Nuttall, Michael Sode, Michael Broddle, Andrew Sutcliffe, Anne Jeavons, Broddle, Sutcliffe, Jeavons, –, Catherine Farrelly, Sode, Bailey, Simon Mayo, Farrelly, Sam Tobin, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Metropolitan Police, Handout, REUTERS Acquire, Britain's, Crime Agency, NCA, Court, London's, Thomson Locations: Gray's, British, London, Bailey