A convicted con artist who was the subject of a popular 2022 Netflix documentary, The Tinder Swindler, has been arrested in Georgia, local officials said. Israeli Simon Leviev was taken into custody at Interpol's request after arriving at Batumi airport in the country's south-west, Georgia's interior ministry said on Monday. Leviev, 34, gained notoriety after an investigative documentary uncovered a string of romance fraud and financial crimes, involving an estimated $10m (£7.4m). He allegedly posed as the wealthy heir of a diamond mogul on dating app Tinder and swindled women into lending him large sums of money, which he never repaid. Authorities did not immediately provide details of the reason for the arrest of Leviev, whose real name is Shimon Yehuda Hayut. In 2019, Leviev was convicted of four charges of fraud in a separate case and sentenced to 15 months in prison, but he was released after serving only five months. According to Israel's Ynet website, his lawyer told reporters Leviev had been 'traveling freely around the world'. Between 2017 and 2019, Leviev's catfishing scheme involved luring women into romantic relationships with an extravagant lifestyle of private jets and luxury holidays. His victims shared their stories in the documentary series, saying they were courted by Leviev with glamorous gifts before he would ask them for significant sums of money, claiming to be in danger. The Tinder Swindler became Netflix's most-watched documentary in 90 countries when it was released in February 2022.