According to reports, the attractive wife of a major Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician “carried £22 million in cash through a refugee border crossing into the EU.”

According to sources, Hungarian customs discovered the money – in US dollars and euros – in the suitcase of controversial ex-MP Igor Kotvitsky, 52.

The alleged cash haul is depicted in a photograph.

According to sources in Kyiv, a criminal investigation has been launched into Anastasia Kotvitska’s refusal to notify the withdrawal of a considerable cash from the war-torn nation.

Kotvitsky, Ukraine’s once-wealthiest MP, said his wife was leaving the country to give birth, but he rejected claims that she was carrying $28 million and 1.3 million euros.

‘All of my money is in Ukrainian banks; I did not take any loans.’

Kotvitska, who was accompanied by two Hungarian men and her mother, has not commented on the border incident.

The claim is that she did not register the large quantity of money she was carrying out of Ukraine at the Vilok crossing, but the money was discovered by Hungarian customs agents, according to the Obozrevatel newspaper.

She then said that she had brought the money into Hungary, an EU member state.