In 2011, Hayut was charged with theft, forgery and fraud for cashing stolen checks.[1] According to reports, he stole a checkbook belonging to a family while babysitting their child, and another's while working as a handyman at their home.[5] He never showed up in court, and escaped the country across the border into Jordan with a fake passport under the name Mordechai Nisim Tapiro, and fled to Europe.[2][3] In 2012, he was indicted by an Israeli court and charged with theft and forgery of checks, as well as for leaving a five-year-old he was babysitting unattended.[1] In 2015, he was arrested in Finland and was sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding several women.[12] When arrested in Finland, he claimed he was an Israeli man born in 1978, and was found with two forged Israeli passports, three forged Israeli driver's licenses, two forged Israeli flight permits, and five forged American Express credit cards.[12]