Korbut denies knowledge of counterfeit bills

ATLANTA - Former Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut had nothing to do with more than $30,000 in counterfeit bills found at her former suburban home, her manager said Wednesday. <br> <br> ``She doesn&#39;t know anything about it. She wants to do a polygraph,&#39;&#39; said Kay Weatherford, who owns the gym where the four-time gold medalist coaches gymnastics. <br> <br> Bill Creel, assistant special agent-in-charge of the Secret Service in Atlanta, confirmed Tuesday that the money was found Dec. 5 at the abandoned Duluth house of Korbut and her ex-husband, Leonid Bortkevich. <br> <br> Weatherford told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday that the couple moved out in 2000 after they divorced. <br> <br> Bortkevich is now said to be living in his native Belarus, and the couple&#39;s son, Richard, 22, and a roommate last lived at the house, said Korbut&#39;s lawyer, Howard J. Weintraub. <br> <br> ``This is a felony - a serious federal offense,&#39;&#39; Weintraub said. ``But at least three people had access to this house in addition to Olga.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Gwinnett County sheriff&#39;s deputies found counterfeit $100 bills strewn about the house while serving an eviction notice. The door was open, and the home was heavily vandalized, according to an incident report. <br> <br> A cleanup crew later found more bills. Creel said that more than $30,000 in counterfeit was found, some still in sheet form.

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