BUCHAREST, Romania — Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate checked in at a police station close to Romania’s capital on Monday, complying with judicial management necessities within the case wherein they’re charged with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Exterior the police station in Voluntari, self-described misogynist Andrew Tate instructed reporters, “I’m a free one who has not been convicted of something,” and stated he’ll “adjust to all judicial authorities in every single place all over the world as a result of I’m utterly harmless.”
The Tates, who’re twin U.S. and British residents, have been arrested in Romania in late 2022 and formally indicted final yr on costs that they participated in a legal ring that lured ladies to Romania, the place they have been allegedly sexually exploited. Andrew Tate was additionally charged with rape. They deny all the allegations in opposition to them.
“It doesn’t matter what you’re accused of, it issues what you’re confirmed responsible to have performed in a good court docket of legislation,” Andrew Tate stated on Monday. “Accusations imply nothing. It doesn’t matter what number of instances you repeat an accusation on the information. That’s rubbish.”
Early on Saturday, the Tate brothers returned to Romania on a private flight after spending weeks within the U.S., the place they flew after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted final month. They continue to be beneath judicial management, which requires them to seem earlier than judicial authorities in Romania when summoned.
Days after they arrived in Florida, on March 4, Florida’s Legal professional Common James Uthmeier stated his workplace had opened a legal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate. He stated in a social media put up that he directed his workplace to work with legislation enforcement to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the brothers.
Andrew Tate on Monday accused Florida’s governor of being “hijacked by the media” after they arrived in his state. “The media jumped on him and he didn’t notice I used to be an American citizen,” he stated. “And now he understands he made a mistake … there’ve been some conversations and every thing has been settled.”
The lifting of their two-year journey ban got here after a Bucharest court docket in December dominated {that a} case in opposition to the brothers could not go to trial due to a number of authorized and procedural irregularities on the a part of the prosecutors.
That improvement was a serious victory for the Tate brothers and a blow to Romania’s anti-organized crime company DIICOT. The case, nonetheless, remained open.
Final August, DIICOT additionally launched a second case against the brothers, investigating allegations of human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sexual activity with a minor, influencing statements and cash laundering. The Tates have strongly denied these costs as effectively.
Andrew Tate, 38, a former skilled kickboxer who has amassed greater than 10 million followers on X, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania don’t have any proof in opposition to him and that there’s a political conspiracy to silence him.
The Tate brothers’ authorized battles will not be restricted to Romania.
4 British ladies who accused Andrew Tate of sexual violence and bodily abuse are suing him in the U.K. after the Crown Prosecution Service determined to not prosecute him.
In March final yr, the Tate brothers appeared on the Bucharest Court docket of Enchantment in a separate case after U.Ok. authorities issued arrest warrants over allegations of sexual aggression in a case relationship again to the interval from 2012 to 2015.
The appeals court docket granted the U.Ok. request to extradite the Tates, however solely after authorized proceedings in Romania have concluded.
