A convicted fraudster featured in the 2022 Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler” has been arrested in the former Soviet republic of Georgia on an Interpol warrant, local officials said.

Simon Leviev, whose real name is Shimon Yehuda Hayut, was arrested after landing at Batumi International Airport on Sunday , the BBC reported, citing Georgia’s Interior Ministry.

The 34-year-old Israeli citizen was detained in Georgia under an Interpol “red notice” — a global request to locate and provisionally arrest someone based on a foreign arrest warrant, pending extradition or similar legal action.

An attorney for Hayut confirmed the arrest Monday, telling Israeli media that his client had been taken into custody while “traveling freely around the world,” according to The Guardian.

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