‘Tinder Swindler’ con artist Simon Leviev arrested in Georgia
Local officials said that a popular 2022 Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, the subject of the Tinder Swindler, was arrested in Georgia.
Georgia’s internal ministry said on Monday that Simon Leviev, Israel, was detained at the request of Interpol after arriving at Batumi airport in the southwest of the country.
34 -year -old Leviev won a number of fame after revealing a number of romantic fraud and financial crime, which contains an estimated $ 10 million ($ 7.4 million) of an investigation documentary.
Allegedly, as a diamond mogulun wealthy heir, he met Tinder and lending a large amount of money that he had never paid to women. Levieve previously rejected the allegations.
Authorities did not give details of the reason for the arrest of Leviev, whose real name was Shimon Yehuda Hayut.
In 2019, Leviev was convicted of four fraud in a separate case and was sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment, but was released after serving only five months.
According to Israel’s YNET website, his lawyer said to journalists that Leviev was “traveling freely worldwide.”
“I talked to him after he was detained this morning, but we don’t understand why.” They said.
Between 2017 and 2019, Leviev’s Catfishing scheme – creating a false online person – involved women to attract women into romantic relationships with exaggerated lifestyle of special jets and luxury holidays.
The victims shared their stories in the documentary series and said that they went to court with Leviev with eye -catching gifts and getaways to gain their trust.
They said that Leviev would later claim that he was followed by his “enemies” and would ask him to transfer a significant amount of money before breaking all the contacts.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, one of the women in the Netflix series, said that she gave Leviev more than $ 270,000 during their relationship.
Last year, another woman Iren Tranov filed a lawsuit in Israel Leviev for 414,000 things (£ 91,000), and lending more than 144,000 sugar (£ 31,000), which he had never paid back to him.
LevieeV told BBC Newsbeat that he strongly rejected the charges against him in the documentary.
Leviev’s former girlfriend Kate Konlin, who spoke to the BBC in 2023, accused him of emotional and physical abuse when he was together.
During a discussion, Mrs. Konlin said that she pushed her and cut her foot in one step with a rough edge.
Im I was bleeding. I felt dead. I wanted to kill myself, ”he said.
After he went to the hospital, he filed a complaint with Leviev with the police.
Leviev then rejected the charges and said he did not physically harm any woman.
When Tinder Swindler was released in February 2022, Netflix was the most watched documentary in 90 countries.
