Andrew Tate is charged with “forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking and rape”.
By AFP.
Lhe Bucharest court on Friday extended the detention of controversial British influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who were arrested in late December as part of a pimping investigation.
“At the request of the prosecutors, the court has accepted the extension of the pre-trial detention of the two Tate brothers until February 27,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in charge of the fight against organized crime (DIICOT) told AFP. ), Ramona Bolla.
The two former kickboxers Andrew Tate, 36, and Tristan, 34, are charged with “forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking and rape”, allegations they deny.
They can remain behind bars for a maximum of 180 days pending possible indictment.
Two of their relatives, of Romanian nationality, were also arrested on December 29, during a vast operation carried out after several months of investigation.
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The network, which had been operating since 2019, recruited “several victims, including minors, for the purpose of sexual exploitation”, according to details provided in mid-January by the prosecution.
The judges had previously invoked the “risk of absconding” and the “danger to public order” to justify the continued detention of the defendants.
Andrew Tate, who also has an American passport, appeared on the television show Big Brother in 2016. He was eliminated from the competition after a video showed him hitting a woman.
He had been suspended from several social networks for misogynistic remarks, but his Twitter account was recently reinstated. Followed by 4.5 million people, he was noticed shortly before his arrest by a very lively and abundantly commented exchange with the Swedish ecologist Greta Thunberg.
