According to reports, the gorgeous wife of a major Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician was apprehended at a border with ‘£22 million while coming into the EU.’
According to sources, Hungarian customs discovered the money, which was in US dollars and euros, in the suitcase of the wife of controversial ex-MP Igor Kotvitsky, 52.
Anastasia Kotvitska, a lady escaping the war-torn Ukraine, had taken the money via a refugee border crossing into the European Union.
According to rumors in Kyiv, a criminal prosecution has been initiated over Anastasia Kotvitska’s inability to declare the enormous sum of money she took out of the war-torn country.
Kotvitsky, previously Ukraine’s wealthiest member of parliament, said his wife was leaving the country to give birth, but refuted allegations that she was carrying $28 million in her womb.
‘All my money is in Ukrainian banks, I did not take anything out,’ he said, before closing his social media account.
Kotvitska, who reportedly travelled with two Hungarian men and her mother, is yet to comment on the allegation.
The allegation is that she did not declare the huge cash sum exiting Ukraine at the Vilok checkpoint, but the money was found by Hungarian customs officers, said Obozrevatel newspaper.
She then made a declaration that she had brought the sum into Hungary, an EU country.
Kovitsky reportedly controls via associates Nuclear Energy Systems of Ukraine, and uranium deposits in the country, which has been partially invaded by Russia. He also has close business and political links with ex-Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.