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Robert Lewandowski: How secret conversation recordings turned into a football thriller

2021-03-04T12:46:29.368Z


World footballer Robert Lewandowski countered a million dollar lawsuit by his ex-consultant with a criminal complaint for extortion. His most important evidence: secretly recorded conversations. But the case is much bigger.


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The Three Wise Men are a public holiday in Catholic Poland.

Nevertheless, Robert Lewandowski had a business meeting on January 6th last year.

The professional footballer had an appointment with his former advisor Cezary Kucharski in a bar in downtown Warsaw, the Baczewskich restaurant.

The FC Bayern striker secretly recorded this conversation and a meeting in Munich a few months earlier.

Lewandowski handed over the copies of these recordings to the Warsaw public prosecutor's office at the beginning of October 2020.

They are a central subject of investigation in a football thriller, in which it is currently confused who is the perpetrator and who is the victim:

  • Lewandowski accuses Kucharski of blackmail.

  • Kucharski, in turn, had accused Lewandowski of having stolen funds from their joint company.

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