Polish Olympic chief charged in Zondacrypto probe, justice minister says

Polish prosecutors charged the head of the Polish Olympic Committee in an investigation linked to defunct cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto. Authorities detained the committee’s president, Radosław Piesiewicz, in connection with the Zondacrypto probe, Poland’s Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek announced in an X post on Thursday.

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Polish Olympic chief charged in Zondacrypto probe, justice minister says

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Fact 1: The exchange became a general sponsor of the Polish Olympic Committee in October 2025.
Fact 2: The exchange stopped trading in April amid a liquidity crisis, around the same time then-CEO Przemysław Kral said it could not access a wallet holding about 4,500 Bitcoin because it did not have the private keys.
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Żurek later said prosecutors charged Piesiewicz under two provisions of Poland’s Penal Code, involving allegations of influence peddling and favoring some creditors over others while facing insolvency. According to local news outlet TVP World, the allegations include Piesiewicz recovering all the money he had invested through Zondacrypto while thousands of other customers could not withdraw their funds. The exchange became a general sponsor of the Polish Olympic Committee in October 2025.

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