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The president of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl), Radosław Piesiewicz, has been detained as part of a criminal investigation into Zondacrypto, a cryptocurrency firm that collapsed earlier this year and was a major sponsor of Poland’s Olympic team.

The development comes a day after Waldemar Żurek, Poland’s justice minister and prosecutor general, revealed that prosecutors are investigating possible crimes relating to…