LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- The son of former Olympic gold medalist Olga Korbut pleaded guilty to making $20,000 in counterfeit money.

Richard Bortkevich, 23, said in federal court Wednesday that he used a computer to make the money from November, 2001, to February.

A Gwinnett County sheriff's deputy found most of the fake $100 bills in an upstairs room of Korbut's former home in December. The deputy was attempting to serve eviction papers to Korbut's ex-husband, Leonid Bortkevich, who had already left for his home country of Belarus.

Richard Bortkevich moved to Florida after the discovery, but was arrested in July after returning to Gwinnett County to report to his probation officer. He had been serving a five-year probation sentence after pleading guilty to felony forgery and theft in 2000. [...]

Korbut, a Belarus native who won four Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union in 1972, was not accused of being involved in the counterfeiting.

Korbut was arrested in Gwinnett County in January on unrelated shoplifting charges but avoided prosecution by agreeing to a pretrial diversion program that included attending a course on values and paying a $333 fine.