Anastasia Kotvitskathe wife of the former deputy from the Popular Front Igor Kotvitsky, one of Ukraine’s richest men, is said to have tried to transfer the £22million fortune abroad through a border crossing for refugees. The money, in dollars and euros, would have been identified in the luggage by Hungarian customs, according to an article in the Daily Star.
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The photos taken show some suitcase contain a large amount of cash. For the time being at the expense of Kotvitska Criminal proceedings were instituted because he failed to declare the money he was carrying and withdrew the large sum from the warravaged country. As reported by the newspaper Obozrevatel, the woman is accused of not declaring the huge sum of cash leaving Ukraine at the Vilok checkpoint and that the money was found by Hungarian customs officers.
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The husband’s (and daughter’s) response.
The controversial Kotvitskyearlier the richest parliamentarians in Ukraine, 52, said his wife was leaving the country to give birth and denied she was carrying the €26 million. Before the accounts were closed, he wrote this sentence on social media: “All my money is in Ukrainian banks, I haven’t withdrawn anything.” The 24yearold daughter Violetta, who studied in Switzerland, also reported on social media speaking: The girl said the story was “false and just a rumor”.
Kotvitska, who was reportedly accompanied by two Hungarian men and her mother, has not yet commented on the incident at the border. He is also believed to have close business and political ties to former Home Secretary Arsen Avakov; According to the Daily Star article, the names of customs officials and border guards are known in narrow circles.
Businessman from Kyiv Seyar Chushutov, who revealed the Kotvitska case, said there was a tariff for bribes collected by customs officials to allow cash to leave the country. These illicit payments range “from 3% to 7.5% depending on the amount and level of the applicant. There are reasons to open a criminal investigation against border guards at the border crossing point in the country’s Zakarpattia region, where it is believed that the flow of money out of the country was ignored.