A businessman who handed his Tinder lover more than £180,000 while 'blinded by attraction' could end up with nothing despite a judge ordering her to pay him back.

'Naive' oil industry consultant Marcel Kooter, 57, agreed to transfer £182,000 to Bulgarian woman Manuela Radeva, 37, after meeting her online in February 2017.

Ms Radeva, who moved into Mr Kooter's apartment in Woolwich, South East London, soon after they met, claimed on her Tinder profile to be an investment banker working for Citibank who was single and looking for love.

'Naive' oil industry consultant Marcel Kooter (left), 57, agreed to transfer £182,000 to Bulgarian woman Manuela Radeva (right), 37, after meeting her online in February 2017.

But it transpired that she was not a professional financier, and had wed another man just a few weeks before she made contact with Mr Kooter.

She was told to pay £200,000 in damages and costs to Mr Kooter in February after High Court judge John Cavanagh QC found that the £182,000 was not a gift as she claimed, but money Mr Kooter believed she was going to invest on his behalf.

This week she was ordered her to pay up to another £100,000 to cover more of his court costs.

But lawyers warned Mr Kooter could end up getting nothing, because Ms Radeva has declared herself bankrupt since the ruling was made against her.

In February, the High Court heard that after their nine-month relationship broke down, Mr Kooter sued his ex, claiming he had only given her the £182,000 to invest for him, thinking she was a high-level professional investment expert.

But Ms Radeva denied his claim. She said she was married but 'amicably separated' and insisted that, as her 'wealthy boyfriend', Mr Kooter gave her most of the money to support their 'expensive, luxurious lifestyle' together.

But Judge Cavanagh told her to pay the money back. He pointed out that a screenshot of her Tinder profile from February 2017 'stated on that profile that she was employed by Citibank' and she also signed off emails 'Manuela Radeva, Capital Investment Manager'.

There were numerous emails detailing 'the process of making arrangements for Mr Kooter to make investments with Ms Radeva,' he added.

At one point in the emails, Mr Kooter had expressed nervousness at what he was doing, saying: 'Just putting a large amount of money into your bank account seems a bit reckless.'

Ms Radeva replied: 'Don't worry about this - you can trust me completely.'

Judge Victoria McCloud has now ordered Ms Radeva to pay the rest of Mr Kooter's court costs, a bill which could reach £100,000. The judge said she must pay the first £50,000 by July 31 this year.

Manuela Radeva poses in front of a Ferrari. She was given £180,000 by a businessman after meeting him online

The judge ordered that Mr Kooter's outstanding claim against Ms Radeva for 36,000 euros be 'discontinued', after his barrister, Kamen Shoylev, told the judge that he now wants to drop it rather than fighting out another trial.

The judge also ordered Ms Radeva's £9,950 counterclaim against her ex to be stayed and dismissed unless she applies to lift the stay.

But the judge said she had received a letter from Ms Radeva 'talking about her bankruptcy' and commented: 'This is a bankruptcy which came on after the judgement against her.'

Mr Shoylev told the judge: 'Mr Kooter is very likely to be applying to set aside the bankruptcy.'

He added outside court: 'It is a matter of public record that Ms Radeva is now bankrupt. It is possible that if the bankruptcy is not set aside, she may get away without paying anything.

'Mr Kooter has an application pending to set aside the bankruptcy in the High Court.'

The court heard during the trial in February that the couple enjoyed a 'lavish lifestyle' together, despite their short association, enjoying skiing holidays and stays in expensive hotels.

Mr Kooter splashed thousands on gifts, including designer luggage and a Chanel handbag and purse for his new lover, the court heard, as well as paying out for their 'hotel and bar expenses'.

But after they split up, he demanded back the £182,000, plus another €36,000 he says he lent her.

But Michael Collard, for Ms Radeva, claimed the payments were part-and-parcel of their lavish 'domestic expenses as a couple' and that Ms Radeva should not be made to reimburse him.

'This was a man on a very high income in what was clearly a serious relationship. They were living together,' he said.

'This was a relationship with lots of kisses. It was not a professional relationship between the two of them.'

Of the €36,000, he added: 'It's the sort of payment a wealthy boyfriend could make to his girlfriend...There is no evidence that he would have expected the money back.'

Ordering her to pay back the £182,000, Judge Cavanagh said: 'There is a great deal of contemporaneous evidence to show Mr Kooter was giving Ms Radeva substantial sums of money so she could invest on his behalf, she having led him to believe she was an expert investor working in the finance industry.

'In my judgment, it is highly implausible that he was giving her this money for any other reason than that she should invest it for him.

'It might be thought to be strange that an experienced businessman would advance these sums to somebody he had recently met without a written agreement.

'He admits he was naive and says he was blinded by attraction'.