Hindustan Times (Delhi)

This student paid £1,000 per day in rent in London

- Prasun Sonwalkar prasun.sonwalkar@hindustant­imes.com

In the US Navy, we say that every sailor is a LONDON: The son of a former Moldfirefi­ghter. That’s because ova PM, who was paying £1,000 when a fire breaks out on a per day in rent for an apartment ship at sea - a real threat given in Knightsbri­dge, London, has the combustibl­e mixture of drawn the attention of British fuel, ammunition, electrical crime officials. circuits and stored supplies -

Vlad Luca Filat, a 22-year-old the entire crew is trained to student, paid £390,000 upfront in step up and douse it. rent for the apartment. He has It’s not like you can just now been ordered to hand over walk across the street and let nearly half a million pounds folthe blaze burn itself out. lowing an investigat­ion by the Here is the most important National Crime Agency (NCA). lesson - never underestim­ate

The NCA’S financial investigat­he power of a fire to tors suspected that the funds “re-flash”. If you put out the were derived for illegal activity initial flames but leave smolby the student’s father, Vladimir dering material, there is a high Filat. Three bank accounts in possibilit­y of it leaping back to connection with the caselife.have been frozen. This is the right way to look

The NCA said the former at the Islamic State (IS) at the Moldova PM is serving a ninemoment. Over the past several year prison sentence after being years and under two presidenco­nvicted in 2016 for his role in tial administra­tions, US and the disappeara­nce of £646 million allied forces have taken away from three Moldovan banks.

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