Polish Olympic chief arrested in crypto-linked graft probe
He said Piesiewicz’s election as head of the Olympic committee had been backed by the former government, led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Radoslaw Piesiewicz, who is considered close to Poland’s nationalist right, is suspected of receiving kickbacks from Zondacrypto, which the government accuses of having links to nationalist opposition groups, organised crime and Russian intelligence services.
Former justice minister and attorney general Zbigniew Ziobro has since fled to the United States, while his former deputy Marcin Romanowski is said to be in a pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova.
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