Expensive cars, big houses and several women. A 45-year-old man from Huissen was described in court today by the Public Prosecution Service as a kind of Gelderland ‘Tinder Swindler’. He is said to have led a luxurious life for years by taking over women and using them to get money. Just like the main character in the popular documentary on Netflix.
Justice suspects the man of money laundering of almost a million euros, fraud and forgery. For this, if it is up to the Public Prosecution Service, he must go to jail for 5.5 years. De Huissenaar received help from, among others, three women and a man, against whom the judiciary has also demanded sentences.
According to Broadcasting Gelderland did the Public Prosecution Service make the Netflix documentary Tinder Swindler because the case shows similarities. The film tells the story of Israeli con man Simon Leviev who used the dating app Tinder to emotionally scam several women to support his luxurious lifestyle.
fake companies
According to the justice system, De Huissenaar had several companies between 2006 and 2018 – including in Arnhem – that only existed on paper. He would have paid salary to, among others, the three female suspects who were supposedly office manager or account manager, but did not perform any work.
De Huissenaar maintained their bank accounts and had the women sign for, among other things, a mortgage for a house in Velp, a mortgage for a spacious house with horse stables in Rheden, a loan for a Ferrari and the takeover of a coffee shop in Apeldoorn. He himself bought a hotel in Winterberg, Germany, and several expensive cars, such as a Bentley and a Porsche, under a false name.
Several women stated during the hearing that they had been “young and in love” and only now said they realized that they were “stupid and naive”. The man told them, among other things, that due to bankruptcy he could no longer get a mortgage and they would have acted in good faith.
Cash
Justice does not believe that the women knew nothing. The officer demands three years in prison against a woman from Zevenaar, of which one year is conditional. A woman from Brummen is demanded forty months in prison. The third woman, from Duiven, has to go to jail for a year and a half, according to justice.
The man who, according to the Public Prosecution Service, was involved in money laundering, must be given community service and a suspended prison sentence, according to the justice system. The judiciary also wants to confiscate his car company in Doesburg, because the company started with largely criminal assets. The car dealer is said to have bought and sold several cars on behalf of the Huissenaar. According to justice, he could have known it was not legal, because all deals were paid with cash.
The court will rule on the fraud case in June.
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