Welcome back to the podcast, bribe, swindle, or steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge and today we're trying to take a financial crime angle on Valentine's Day

and we're talking about the Tinder Swindler story. It was recently adapted into a popular Netflix

documentary. My guest is Erlund

Offte Arnsson. He is a U.S. correspondent for Norway's VG newspaper and he was on the reporting

team that broke this story. Erland, thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having you.

For our listeners who haven't read the story or seen the documentary yet, can you walk us through the SEGA?

It's really a stunning story and the work that your team did on it was phenomenal.

So I'd like to just hand this over to you.

I could maybe start off with where me and my colleagues, Natalieen and Christopher Kumar come into the picture.

So we need to go back to June of 2018.

I was getting ready for the summer holidays, actually,

but there was an email that landed in my inbox.

It was a tip-off to our newsroom from a Norwegian woman.

She was living in the UK, and she had quite a stunning story to tell.

She had the last previous in the months before, the UK and she had quite a stunning story to tell. She had the last previous

in the months before, the winter and spring of 2018. She had become romantically involved with a

person named Simon Leviov. She mentioned private jets and fancy cars, but more than that,

he had traveled around with team pretending pretending to be diamond billionaire's son

and a CEO of this big diamond company. But in the end, after a few months, she had ended up

with a two million crown, Norwegian crown. That's about $250,000. And she also mentioned that

this has happened because he had claimed to be in some kind of danger and

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