Grzegorz Gilewski is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 football referee

Football (soccer)

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On 9 November 2008 Gilewski was detained by CBA

Central Anticorruption Bureau

The Central Anticorruption Bureau is a division of the Polish government, reporting to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for addressing corruption in Poland. Located in Warsaw, the CBA has been in operation since 24 July 2006, having been activated by the June 2006 Central Anticorruption...

 in an investigation related to match-fixing in Polish football. He was charged the next day with three crimes: match-fixing, accepting bribes worth 120,000 PLN

Polish zloty

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 (ca. 30,000 EUR

Euro

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) and participation in an organised criminal group.

He was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

2010 FIFA World Cup

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