By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent
GERMAN authorities have seized €3.1 million after the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU Deutschland) flagged a suspicious money transfer from Uzbekistan.
Zoll, the German customs agency, said the FIU’s report led prosecutors in Mühlhausen and investigators from the Dresden Customs Investigation Office to open a case against two 55-year-old managing directors from Germany and Austria, along with a 48-year-old Georgian national.
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