Student’s Funds Seized After Paying $500,000 Rent on Penthouse
- U..K. agency says funds come from father’s illegal activities
- Student is son of imprisoned ex-Moldova prime minister
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A London student who pre-paid 390,000 pounds ($500,000) in rent for a Knightsbridge penthouse must hand over nearly half a million pounds, following an investigation by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency.
Three bank accounts for Vlad Luca Filat, 22, were frozen in May 2018 after NCA financial investigators suspected the funds derived from illegal activity by his father, Vladimir Filat, the former prime minister of Moldova.