Detained magnate Plahotniuc willing to be extradited to Moldova, lawyer says

CHISINAU, Moldova (Reuters) -Moldovan business magnate Vladimir Plahotniuc, detained in Greece on a warrant linked to a landmark $1 billion fraud case, is willing to be extradited to Moldova, his lawyer said on Monday. Plahotniuc, a former lawmaker and considered one of Moldova's richest men, is one of the chief suspects in Moldova's "theft of the century", the disappearance in 2013 of $1 billion from the Moldovan banking system -- the equivalent at the time of 12% of the ex-Soviet state's GDP. "My client has officially agreed to extradition to Moldova," lawyer Lucian Rogac told reporters.