Meet Hendrik Holt: The €10 Million Fraudster Who Just Escaped Berlin Prison
The fraudster was sentenced to nine years in prison for tricking energy companies out of €10 million. Now, he's posting on Instagram "Greetings from Moscow, it's very nice here, the caviar is fantastic."
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At 36 years old, Hendrik Holt has achieved a lot in his young career. He is considered one of the most brazen fraudsters in recent years, having defrauded foreign energy companies out of €10 million in exchange for wind farms that did not exist. In 2020, he was arrested at Berlin's Hotel Adlon. In 2022, Holt, originally from Haselünne in the Emsland, was sentenced to prison by a court in Osnabrück, and had been serving his term at a correctional facility in Berlin. But now, it appears, he has escaped.
"Greetings from Moscow, it's very nice here, the caviar is fantastic."
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