Overview

• Georgia’s Interior Ministry confirmed his Sunday arrest at Batumi Airport following an Interpol request for provisional detention.
• His lawyer, Sagiv Rotenberg, said the defense has not been told the grounds for holding him, and Leviev has rejected the accusations and criticized the Netflix documentary.
• Leviev, born Shimon Yehuda Hayut, is accused of posing as a diamond heir to defraud women he met on Tinder of about $10 million.
• He previously served brief sentences for fraud in Finland and Israel, including a 2019 Israeli term of 15 months of which he served roughly five.
• Victims continue to pursue compensation, including Cecilie Fjellhøy citing losses over $270,000 and Iren Tranov seeking 414,000 shekels, while Leviev posted a short TikTok video shortly before his detention.