The “Tinder of Tinder” was detained by the police on an international airport at Interpol's request

Shimon Yehuda Hayut, also known as Simon Leviev, who was at the center of a Netflix documentary about how he managed to trick more women on the dating app, was arrested in Georgia at the request of Interpol, reports BBC and The Guardian.

Hayut was detained on Sunday as soon as he arrived at the Batumi International Aeropath in the southwest of the country, but the Georgian authorities did not specify the reasons.

Being as a sophisticated son of a diamond mogul, Lev Leviev, the 34-year-old man, won women from whom he managed to get about $ 10 million between 2017 and 2019.

The Netflix documentary of 2022 showed that he had created a false identity on Tinder to attract the victims in amicous relationships that he later tricked. He sought to couple with women known on the dating application, after which he invites them to a first glamorous meeting, using elaborate and expensive props, including body guards and private aircraft.

The documentary suggested that, after winning the confidence of women, he sent them messages telling them that his credit card was no longer working and asked to open a new one on their behalf, which he could use.

The victims told in the documentary that the man later pretended that he was followed by his “enemies” and asked them to transfer significant amounts of money, before breaking any connection.

Cecilie Fjellhøy, one of the women who appear in the Netflix series, said he gave Hayut over $ 270,000 during their relationship.

Hayut denied all the charges against him. He said that “he was not a scam and no false”, but a “legitimate businessman” who made his wealth through Bitcoin.

He was convicted of four charges of fraud, forgery and theft in 2019, after being arrested and extradited to Israel in Greece.

He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, of which he performed only five due to the pandemic. coronavirus. Hayut was also forced to pay $ 47,000 to compensation to victims and a fine of approximately $ 6,200 to hold a fake passport.

The Georgian Interior Ministry said Hayut was detained on Sunday based on a red notification issued by Interpol, a request for provisional location and arrest of a person to be extradited. It is not clear which state requested his arrest.

According to the Israeli site Ynet, his lawyer told reporters that Leviev “travels freely around the world.”

“I talked to him this morning after he was detained, but we still do not understand the reason,” said the lawyer after Hayut's detention.

The “Tinder Sindler” (“Tinder Sindler”) became the most watched documentary on Netflix in 90 countries with its launch in February 2022.