Glam wife of tycoon caught at Ukrainian border trying to sneak over £22m in cash
dailystar.co.ukUkraine ’s wealthiest MP - said his wife was leaving the country to give birth, however he denied reports she was carrying $28 million and 1.3 million euros. “All my money is in Ukrainian banks, I did not take anything out,” he said, before closing his social media account.
A statement from him carried on the social media of his Swiss-educated daughter Violetta, 24, said the story was “fake and rumours".Kotvitska, who reportedly travelled with two Hungarian men and her mother, has not commented on the frontier incident.
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.There is huge sensitivity in Ukraine about the wealthy elite seeking to take their fortunes abroad evading capital flight curbs at a time when the country's fate hangs in the balance.
Kovitsky reportedly controls via associates Nuclear Energy Systems of Ukraine, and uranium deposits in the country, which has been partially invaded by Russia.
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