The debt of Robin Lehner and his wife, Dunya, is approximately SEK 283 million.
The Athletic reports.
The Swedish NHL goaltender’s ownership of an exotic snake farm is cited as part of it.
Sportbladet wrote on a previous occasion that Robin Lehner had gone into personal bankruptcy in Sweden after not paying a debt of around five million kronor, and that he had also filed for bankruptcy in the United States.
In the previous bankruptcy filing in the United States, it was revealed that Lehner is the owner of a company that operates a snake farm and that the debts range from 10 to 50 million dollars, which is approximately 100 to 500 million crowns.
Detailed information
Now The Athletic is coming up with more detailed information after filing for new bankruptcy on Friday. The site states that Lehner and his wife, Dunya, have debts of $27.3 million, equivalent to about 283 million kroner, to several different creditors.
The Athletic reports that a large proportion of the debt is tied to solar energy company SolarCode, in which Lehner has invested. It is a company accused of non-payment of the company’s loan and is being sued for the equivalent of approximately SEK 40 million.
Lehner also states that his assets are worth around SEK 52 million, most of which is tied to his home in Las Vegas.
Alien snakes
According to KMIZ, Lehner reportedly bought a batch of exotic snakes in 2017 from a man named Ben Renick for SEK 12 million, an amount Lehner had to pay quarterly.
He paid this amount, but a few months later Ben Renick was killed by his wife, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Lehner was then sued to stop the payments. For his part, the Swede claimed to have paid millions of dollars to take care of Renick’s animals. In November 2019, the two parties announced a settlement, but kept the terms secret.
Robin Lehner is with the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL but has not played this season after having hip surgery this summer. He remained in his contract for two seasons, with an annual salary of approximately 52 million Swedish kronor.