Bucharest, Romania – The influential brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate registered in a police station near the capital of Romania on Monday, complying with the judicial control requirements in the case in which they are accused of Human trafficking and the formation of a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Outside the volunteer police station, the misogynist Andrew Tate told journalists: “I am a free person who has not been convicted of anything” and said that “he will comply with all judicial authorities around the world because I am completely innocent.”
The Tates, who are dual American and British citizens, were arrested in Romania at the end of 2022 and Formally accused Last year, for the positions that participated in a criminal ring that attracted women to Romania, where they were supposedly exploited sexually. Andrew Tate was also accused of rape. Negan all accusations against him.
“It doesn’t matter what they accuse you of, it matters what you have proven in a fair court of justice,” said Andrew Tate on Monday. “The accusations mean anything. No matter how many times an accusation in the news. That is garbage.”
Early Saturday, the Tate brothers He returned to Romania on a private flight After spending weeks in the United States, where they flew After a travel ban that was imposed on them last month. They remain under judicial control, which requires them to appear before the judicial authorities in Romania when they are convened.
Days after they arrived in Florida, on March 4, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier said that his office had opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate. He said in a social networks Publish that he ordered his office to work with the police to carry out a preliminary investigation into the brothers.
Andrew Tate accused the governor of Florida on Monday of being “kidnapped by the media” after they reached their state. “The media jumped on him and did not realize that he was an American citizen,” he said. “And now he understands that he made a mistake … There have been some conversations and everything has been resolved.”
The lifting of its two -year trip prohibition occurred after a more bucarte court in December ruled that a case against the brothers could not go to trial Due to multiple legal and procedural irregularities by prosecutors.
That development was a great victory for the Tate brothers and a blow to the Anti -Ranked Crimes Agency of Romania, Diicot. The case, however, remained open.
Last August, Diicot also launched a second case against the brothersInvestigating accusations of human trafficking, trafficking in minors, sexual relations with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. The Tates have also strongly denied those positions.
Andrew Tate, 38, a former professional kickboxer who has accumulated more than 10 million followers in X, has repeatedly stated that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him.
The legal battles of the Tate brothers are not limited to Romania.
Four British women who accused Andrew tate of sexual violence and physical abuse They are demanding it in the United Kingdom After the Crown Prosecutor’s Office decided not to process it.
In March last year, the Tate brothers appeared in the Bucharest Court of Appeals in a separate case after the United Kingdom authorities issued arrest orders for the accusations of sexual assault in a case that dates back to the period from 2012 to 2015.
The Court of Appeals granted the United Kingdom application to extradite the Tates, but only after the legal procedures in Romania have concluded.
