
Dubai authorities have arrested Hendrik Holt, who has been on the run since last August, and the Public Prosecution has begun extradition procedures
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Hendrik Holt was sentenced in 2022 to 9 years in prison on charges of organized fraud, bribery and forgery of documents. He escaped on August 25 while on leave from open prison in Berlin.
A spokesman for the German Public Prosecution in the city of Osnabrück said, on Wednesday (September 23, 2026), that the convict, Hendrik Holt, was arrested the day before yesterday, Tuesday, by the authorities of the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The spokesman explained that Holt is still in Dubai, noting that the next step requires sending his extradition documents.
Hendrik Holt (36 years old) had been on the run since August 25, when he did not return to the prison in Berlin, where he was being held, after going on permitted leave. He was serving his sentence in Berlin under the open prison system. A European arrest warrant was issued against him, and he was searched for all over the world.
At first his whereabouts were unknown. Then he said in a post on Instagram that was reported by the media: “Loving greetings from Moscow, it is very beautiful here, and the caviar is wonderful.”
A spokesman for the Lower Saxony state prosecutor's office commented that it was a "hoax".
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According to information from German public broadcaster NDR, Hendrik Holt fled through Poland to Türkiye and then to Dubai. It remains unclear how a convicted criminal managed to escape to a non-European country, as passports are usually confiscated from prisoners under the open prison system. The judicial authorities in the Berlin state government declined to comment.
In 2022, the Regional Court in Osnabrück sentenced Hendrik Holt to a total prison sentence of approximately 9 years on charges of organized fraud within a gang, bribery, and forging documents.
It is noteworthy that Holt, who was the subject of a documentary prepared by the German broadcaster Channel 1 (ARD) entitled (“Holt - The Wind Energy Scam”), was involved in selling fake wind farms that did not actually exist to international energy companies, in addition to bribing foreign diplomats to obtain a diplomatic passport in order to obtain immunity from German prosecution.
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