I'm a simple emigrant, just like a German prison

Today I will tell you a story about how a German fraudster got out of prison to take a walk, walked all the way to Dubai, and perhaps along the way committed new crimes. Hendrik Holt was born into a family of entrepreneurs from Lower Saxony and decided to follow in their footsteps. At a very young age he managed to build an image of a successful businessman in the wind energy sector, very popular in Germany. He offered large energy companies projects for wind farms, initially real ones. This image of a wunderkind with visible own and family businesses helped him earn a huge credit of trust. Next he decided to sell non-existent projects. Let me explain how this could have happened. The thing is that building a park is almost the easiest part of the project. The hardest part is obtaining a billion permissions, ranging from snails on the site to the president of the galaxy. And Holt sold that air: he showed companies a stack of fake documents and insisted that all permits, rights and approvals were already obtained: take the object – and start construction. At the same time he flashed his face everywhere he could. Expensive cars, hotels, photos with politicians and bigwigs — all of this created the appearance of real success. And together with talks about multi-billion projects, he almost became the face of the industry. It would have gone on like this, but once a municipal employee noticed a document supposedly signed by her and granting land for wind projects, although she hadn’t signed it. This became the first thread by which the police unraveled his entire scheme. And in April 2020 Holt was arrested: 7.5 years of imprisonment for group and commercial fraud conspiracy. As you can see, the story did not end there. German prison has a regime where a prisoner can go out without accompaniment, but he must return at night. Its purpose is gradual retraining for normal life. And since October 2024 Holt was transferred to an “open regime.” He did not waste time and, according to the media, managed to make 513 outings. During these outings he got married! He had a child!! In 2024 Business Insider released a long interview with Holt, recorded right in prison!!! There he talked about fraud, a luxurious life and imprisonment. And in 2026 a documentary film “Holt – Der Windkraft-Schwindler” with his direct participation was released. Aren’t you shocked? I, honestly, am completely. Further, in July 2025 the company Crisp Partners acquired the troubled regional airport Rostock-Laage. The new owners wanted to develop it, including using large free areas for solar power plants and energy storage systems. It was then that Holt’s name flashed again. In August 2026 WELT published an investigation that Holt could have participated in organizing the purchase of the airport through intermediaries, while being in the “free” prison. The owner of Crisp Partners, Ira Laut, denies business relations with Holt. But journalists obtained internal documents linking Crisp Energy and Holt Holding. The price of the airport deal was €3.1 million. But the buyer paid only the first tranche of €240,000. The rest of the money never arrived: €1 million was to be paid by the end of 2025; another €1.86 million — in the first half of 2026. Because of these problems, the debt collectors took an interest in the deal. And Holt on August 25 received another unaccompanied outing. And simply did not return. The next day there came the news to the prison that Holt had left Germany. After that began an international manhunt. At first no one knew exactly where he was. And then an Instagram post appeared with the caption “Greetings from Moscow. It’s very beautiful here. The caviar is fantastic.” But investigators could not get him. By that time they already knew Holt was in the UAE. He somehow managed to get to Dubai via Poland and Turkey. There is no official answer yet how he did this, but journalists are trying to find out whether Holt even had his passport seized. Continued in the comments (there’s just a little left) 👇 #Ordnung photo: Carmen Jaspersen/dpa