It has emerged that an imprisoned habitual fraudster who officially changed his gender twice to evade police detection joined women’s football team CHECZ Gdynia, media outlet Polsat has reported.
The fraudster has been named by authorities as “Andrzej D.C.”, but was also known as “Joanna R.” He joined CHECZ Gdynia, who play in the women’s Polish Ekstraliga, as a goalkeeper at the age of 55. He said that he wanted to train with and help out at the club, which he did for almost eight months.
The arrangement continued until it emerged that Joanna was in fact Andrzej, a convicted felon. Club president Mateusz Bieszke made the discovery.
“It all came to light when a man, who introduced himself as Andrzej called me from Joanna's number… This made me curious, so I looked up his details on the internet. It turned out that it was Joanna, only in a male version,” Bieszke said.
Andrzej D.C. is a professional fraudster who has scammed multiple people over many years, using his two personalities as cover.
The arrangement continued until it emerged that Joanna was in fact Andrzej, a convicted felon. Club president Mateusz Bieszke made the discovery.
“It all came to light when a man, who introduced himself as Andrzej called me from Joanna's number… This made me curious, so I looked up his details on the internet. It turned out that it was Joanna, only in a male version,” Bieszke said.
Andrzej D.C. is a professional fraudster who has scammed multiple people over many years, using his two personalities as cover.
He initially officially changed his gender and became Joanna. However, after two years, he once again decided to become Andrzej.
With each change, he was assigned a new personal identification number (PESEL). However, Andrzej/Joanna did not return his old documents, claiming that he had lost them. Consequently, he had three different PESEL numbers which he used for his scams.
He deceived victims of the Amber Gold scandal - a Ponzi scheme launched in 2009 which scammed more than 18,000 of its clients out of a total of 851 million zlotys (€198 million) - by promising to represent them in court.
He claimed to be a lawyer educated abroad and working in London. In reality, he had only graduated from a technical school, and the lawsuits were either not filed at all or were so unprofessional that the court rejected them outright.
“This is a person who will stop at nothing to commit more crimes. Nothing in his life was real except the frauds he committed and the harm to his victims,” Patryk Stępień, one of the victims, said.
The numerous cases of deception eventually caught up with the conman while was employed as a manager of a hotel in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, southeastern Poland.
Working there, he deployed his two identities. He was renting a room under the name Andrzej, but managing the hotel as Joanna.
“Authorities would come, of which there were many, Joanna would come out and say that she knew nothing, that it was necessary to talk to Andrzej, because he was in charge,” said Iwona Marczak, a former hotel employee.
“The person had no idea that Andrzej was just standing in front of him,” Marczak added.
After being detained by the police, despite his female appearance, Andrzej D.C. was placed in a men's prison because his most recent official documents said he was male.
With each change, he was assigned a new personal identification number (PESEL). However, Andrzej/Joanna did not return his old documents, claiming that he had lost them. Consequently, he had three different PESEL numbers which he used for his scams.
He deceived victims of the Amber Gold scandal - a Ponzi scheme launched in 2009 which scammed more than 18,000 of its clients out of a total of 851 million zlotys (€198 million) - by promising to represent them in court.
He claimed to be a lawyer educated abroad and working in London. In reality, he had only graduated from a technical school, and the lawsuits were either not filed at all or were so unprofessional that the court rejected them outright.
“This is a person who will stop at nothing to commit more crimes. Nothing in his life was real except the frauds he committed and the harm to his victims,” Patryk Stępień, one of the victims, said.
The numerous cases of deception eventually caught up with the conman while was employed as a manager of a hotel in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, southeastern Poland.
Working there, he deployed his two identities. He was renting a room under the name Andrzej, but managing the hotel as Joanna.
“Authorities would come, of which there were many, Joanna would come out and say that she knew nothing, that it was necessary to talk to Andrzej, because he was in charge,” said Iwona Marczak, a former hotel employee.
“The person had no idea that Andrzej was just standing in front of him,” Marczak added.
After being detained by the police, despite his female appearance, Andrzej D.C. was placed in a men's prison because his most recent official documents said he was male.
Source: Polsat
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