The Tinder Swindler has found himself in more legal trouble.
Nearly three years after Shimon Yehuda Hayut was the center of Netflix’s eponymous documentary, the convicted con musician was arrested on Sept. 14 over accusations of fraud, his attorney Sagiv Rotenberg told The New York Times.
Hayut, who also went by the name Simon Leviev, was detained in Georgia after a German woman alleged that he had defrauded her of nearly 44,000 euros ($52,000) from 2017 to 2019, according to Interpol documents seen by the outlet.
Among the alleged charges, per the docs, were thousands of dollars using a credit card and phone contract in the woman’s name, including 9,000 euros ($10,600) in hotel and flights for him in the Cayman Islands after he allegedly told her that his credit card was blocked.
Although the German government requested Hayut’s arrest in Georgia, Rotenberg told The NYT that his client hasn’t been charged with any crime in Germany. The 34-year-old—who denied the allegations—has seven days to appeal the court’s ruling, according to Batumi City Court documents.
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