Shimon Hayut, the notorious con man who was the subject of Netflix ’s popular documentary “The Tinder Swindler ,” has been arrested after allegedly stealing more than $52,000 from a woman in Berlin. Hayut was arrested in Georgia Tuesday, according to The New York Times.
Hayut was previously arrested for fraud in 2019, where he was sentenced to 15 months in prison in Israel. After five months in jail, he was released.
“The Tinder Swindler” investigated Hayut’s romances with multiple women he had met on Tinder and used their money to buy luxury items, vacations to five-star hotels and travel on private jets. According to the documentary, Hayut impersonated a wealthy oligarch’s son, creating multiple credit lines using the names and personal information of the women he had gone on dat