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In 2011, Hayut was charged in Israel with [[theft]], [[forgery]], and [[fraud]] for cashing stolen checks.<ref name="extrad" /> According to reports, he stole a checkbook belonging to a family while babysitting their child, and another's while working as a handyman at their home.<ref name="extrad" /> He never showed up in court and escaped the country across the border into [[Jordan]] with a fake passport under the name Mordechai Nisim Tapiro, and fled to Europe.<ref name="VGNett_2019"/><ref name="VG Nett 2019">{{cite news |author=Natalie Remøe Hansen |author2=Kristoffer Kumar |author3=Erlend Ofte Arntsen |date=16 February 2019 |title=The Tinder Swindler |url=https://www.vg.no/spesial/2019/tindersvindler/english/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205200219/https://www.vg.no/spesial/2019/tindersvindler/english/ |archive-date=5 February 2022 |access-date=6 February 2022 |website=VG Nett}}</ref> In 2012, he was indicted by an Israeli court and charged with theft and forgery of checks, as well as for leaving a five-year-old he was babysitting unattended.<ref name="VGNett_2019" /> In 2015, he was arrested in [[Finland]] and was sentenced to three years in prison. When arrested in Finland, he claimed he was an Israeli man born in 1978 and was found with two forged Israeli passports, three forged Israeli driver's licenses, two forged Israeli flight permits, and five American Express credit cards.
After finishing his sentence early, he returned to Israel to be recharged and sentenced in 2017. However, according to ''[[The Times of Israel]]'', he assumed a different identity by changing his legal name to Simon Leviev and fled the country again.<ref name="Padin 2022" /><ref name="extrad" /> Hayut travelled around [[Europe]], pretending to be different people. He allegedly also presented himself as the son of Russian-Israeli diamond mogul [[Lev Avnerovich Leviev|Lev Leviev]], using the dating app [[Tinder (app)|Tinder]] to contact women as Leviev, and tricked them into loaning him money that he never repaid. He would charm women with lavish gifts, taking them to dinners on private jets, He would later pretend he was being targeted by his "enemies", often sending the same messages and images pretending that his bodyguard was attacked, asking his victims to help him financially;
In 2019, he was arrested by [[Interpol]] in [[Greece]] after using a forged passport.<ref name="extrad" /><ref name="Nyheter fra Norges mest leste nettavis – VG 2019">{{cite web | title=Israel requests extradition of Tinder fraudster | website=VG Nett | date=2 July 2019 | url=https://www.vg.no/i/VbaMB1 | language=en | access-date=6 February 2022 | archive-date=4 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204230048/https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/VbaMB1/israel-requests-extradition-of-tinder-fraudster | url-status=live }}</ref> Later that year, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison in Israel,<ref name="sentence" /><ref name="Tindersvindleren dømt til 15 måneders fengsel – VG 2019">{{cite news | title=Tindersvindleren dømt til 15 måneders fengsel | website=VG Nett | date=30 December 2019 | url=https://www.vg.no/i/y3pyze | language=nb | access-date=6 February 2022 | archive-date=5 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205104735/https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/y3pyze/tindersvindleren-doemt-til-15-maaneders-fengsel | url-status=live }}</ref> but was released five months later as a result of the [[coronavirus pandemic]].<ref name="Mitchell 2022">{{cite web | last=Mitchell | first=Molli | title=LLD Diamonds responds to "Tinder Swinder" Simon Leviev's lies | website=Newsweek | date=4 February 2022 | url=https://www.newsweek.com/lld-diamonds-simon-leviev-response-comment-tinder-swindler-netflix-shimon-hayut-1676130 | access-date=6 February 2022 | archive-date=4 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204093812/https://www.newsweek.com/lld-diamonds-simon-leviev-response-comment-tinder-swindler-netflix-shimon-hayut-1676130 | url-status=live }}</ref> According to ''[[Daily Mirror|The Mirror]]'', he later offered "business advice" for a fee via a website.<ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Sullivan|first=Kyle|date=2022-02-02|title=Tinder Swindler went back on dating app after sick scam and now seeing a model|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/tinder-swindler-now-shimon-hayut-26118262|access-date=2022-02-13|website=mirror|language=en|archive-date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214211226/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/tinder-swindler-now-shimon-hayut-26118262|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-02-02|title=Home {{!}} Simon Leviev|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202125400/http://simonleviev.online/|access-date=2022-02-13|url=http://simonleviev.online/|archive-date=2022-02-02}}</ref> According to ''[[The Times of Israel]]'', in 2020 he pretended to be a [[healthcare worker|medical worker]] to get the [[COVID-19 vaccine]] early.<ref name="The Times of Israel 2020">{{cite web | title='Tinder swindler' faked being medic, conned his way into early vaccine – report | website=The Times of Israel | date=30 December 2020 | url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/tinder-swindler-faked-being-medic-conned-his-way-into-early-vaccine-report/ | access-date=6 February 2022 | archive-date=30 December 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230105907/https://www.timesofisrael.com/tinder-swindler-faked-being-medic-conned-his-way-into-early-vaccine-report/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="inews.co.uk 2022">{{cite web | title=What happened to Tinder Swindler Shimon Hayut after the scam is covered Netflix | website=inews.co.uk | date=3 February 2022 | url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/simon-leviev-now-tinder-swindler-shimon-hayut-what-happend-diamonds-netflix-series-1438051 | access-date=6 February 2022 | archive-date=7 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207221111/https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/simon-leviev-now-tinder-swindler-shimon-hayut-what-happend-diamonds-netflix-series-1438051 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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