Budapest, 28 Feb. Romania’s appeals court has rejected an appeal for the release of influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, accused of sexual exploitation, for which they will remain in preventive detention for at least another 30 days.
The Tate brothers unsuccessfully appealed the Bucharest court’s decision last week to extend their detention, the Agerpres agency reports today.
British-American ‘influencer’ and businessman Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were jailed in late December for alleged crimes of trafficking, exploitation and rape.
The Romanian Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime and the Fight against Terrorism (DIICOT) accuses them of forcing the girls to appear in videos with sexual content.
According to DIICOT, the defendants resorted to the so-called “loverboy method”, i.e. they pretended to fall in love with the girls whom they then detained in an apartment building where they were forced to make pornographic videos which they then uploaded to the Internet.
The Court of Appeal has now also dismissed the house arrest request made by two alleged Tates collaborators, former police officer Georgiana Manuela Naghel and Andrew’s friend Alexandra-Luana Radu, who will also remain in custody. on sight.
Romanian prosecutors have so far identified six victims, while seizing the Tate brothers’ assets, including luxury cars.
Former kickboxing world champion Andrew Tate was a cast member of Big Brother in the UK, leaving the show in 2016 after being accused of sexual assault.
Tate has millions of followers on the internet, where he posted videos in which he claimed an aggressive and misogynistic masculinity associated with economic success.