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Former Hungarian Swim Team Manager Goes to Jail

May 29, 1998

Gyorgy Zemplenyi, the former team manager of Hungary's Barcelona Olympic swim team has been sentenced to four years in prison for fraud and embezzlement.

He disappeared after the Barcelona Olympic Games amid allegations of fraud and embezzelment worth and estimated $1.5 million. He reportedly gave himself up to police in Denmark.