Why Hasn’t Interpol Caught the Tinder Swindler?

Ben Keith contributes to Red Notice Monitor blog on 7 April 2022

Ben Keith co-authors a blog post for Red Notice Monitor, a new website for news and resources written by legal experts examining human rights and international law issues relating to Interpol. The blog post explains how Interpol's structure allows it to be exploited by criminals, including the ‘Tinder Swindler’:

It is estimated that Simon Leviev swindled $10 million dollars from female victims across Europe between 2017-2019. As the recent Netflix documentary shows, many of his victims are still paying off their debts.

So why hasn’t Interpol caught Simon Leviev given all the publicity?

It is frequently reported that in 2019 Shimon Hayut (alias Simon Leviev) was arrested by Interpol in Greece and extradited to Israel where he was wanted for cashing stolen cheques.

In fact, Interpol could never have arrested Leviev, because Interpol itself has no powers to investigate or arrest anyone. Interpol is an organisation for sharing information which police forces around the world use to track alleged fugitives.

You can read the full blog post published by Red Notice Monitor, on 7 April 2022, here.