Waiters in tuxedos serve frozen vodka, while a drunk, barefoot host in a tracksuit promises his guests three trillion złoty from the state. It's 1998. Lech Grobelny – the man who defrauded 11,000 Poles and ushered in the era of Polish pyramid schemes – is just being released from custody. How did a Poznań money changer scam all of Poland, outwit a helpless state, and take his biggest secret to the grave?
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Waiters in tuxedos serve frozen vodka, while a drunk, barefoot host in a tracksuit promises his guests three trillion złoty from the state. It's 1998. Lech Grobelny – the man who defrauded 11,000 Poles and ushered in the era of Polish pyramid schemes – is just being released from custody. How did a Poznań money changer scam all of Poland, outwit a helpless state, and take his biggest secret to the grave?