The director of a real estate company will be brought to justice for attempting to smuggle currency estimated at over 1.7 million lei. On November 11 this year, the man was caught trying to smuggle almost €85,000 out of Moldova through the Leușeni customs post, IPN reports, quoting the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The case was sent to the Hâncești District Prosecutor’s Office. When questioned by prosecutors, the businessman refused to make statements. The money was seized and transferred to the account of the Crime Assets Recovery Agency of the National Anticorruption Center.

The man was banned from leaving the country, being investigated outside custody.