1/ For those interested in reading about some of #TheTinderSwindler's other victims -- not mentioned in the #Netflix documentary -- we did several stories back in 2019. They can be read quite easily in english by using Google Translate.
2/ First one is from New York. The Chobin family tells the story on how a teenage Shimon Yehuda Hayut in 2008 got away with 42.000 dollars after living with them, spending them on luxury travel, hotels and shopping on Fifth Avenue in three days. vg.no/nyheter/i/OnV3…
3/ This one is from Israel, where we worked with @uri_blau. A father tells what happened when they hired Simon Leviev as a babysitter, and a co-student of Simon from a pilot school (!) tells about investing in his "business" before Simon disappeared. vg.no/nyheter/innenr…
4/ This one is from Amsterdam where he did not pay up after renting an exclusive apartment. Pictures of stuff he left when he fled. vg.no/nyheter/i/a2zr…
5/ Stories done with my brilliant colleagues @NatalieRHansen and @kristofferkumar. The New York story was done by VGs then US correspondent @RobSimso. The Amsterdam/London story by
@mariekingsrod.
@mariekingsrod.
6/ Which reminds me of how @vgnett / VG the week after publishing the initial story found ourselves reporting stories from New York, London, Amsterdam within the same 24 hours -- at same time as we were getting ready material from Israel to get published.
7/ Simon Leviev was arrested in Greece because of a fake passport June 28th 2019. A few days later Israel wanted him extradited. Some interesting details here, and the story is in english: vg.no/nyheter/innenr…
8/ This interview with the leader of the Association Of Jewish Lawyers seeks to explain the Israeli laws enabling the #TheTinderSwindler to escape prosecution for fraud in Europe -- and why the extradition might have been a good deal for him. vg.no/nyheter/innenr…
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