Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania on suspicion of rape, human trafficking, and organized crime after cops raided his luxury home.
Following raids on his villa and other properties near Bucharest, the prolific social media personality, 36, was detained for 24 hours alongside his brother Tristan as part of the criminal investigation, Romanian prosecutors said.
According to prosecutors, the brothers are suspects in an alleged organized crime ring that sexually exploited at least six women by recruiting, housing, and forcing them to perform pornographic videos for sale online.
In a statement, Romania’s Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) confirmed that cops raided five homes associated with four suspects as part of an investigation into organized crime, human trafficking, and rape. It did not name the four suspects, but stated that two were Romanian citizens and two were British citizens who allegedly held at least six women captive in houses around Bucharest, sexually assaulting them and forcing them to produce pornography for social media under threat of violence.
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Romanian police handcuffed and led away controversial kickboxer #AndrewTate, 36, and his younger brother Tristan, 34, after a 24-hour raid on their villa in Bucharest on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/mYijkZYuZw
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Several local media outlets identified the two British citizens as Tate, a British-American kickboxer known for his grossly misogynistic online persona and for flaunting his 33 cars, and his brother, Tristan.
According to Romania TV, one of the Romanian suspects is a former Bucharest cop who is dating one of the Tates.
The brothers are accused of luring women to lavish villas using the “loverboy method,” in which they faked a relationship on social media before convincing the women to travel to Romania to pursue a romantic relationship.
According to local news site G4, they allegedly kept women in a small studio where they were forced to work as pornographic models for OnlyFans and other websites.
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The world was curious.
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— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) December 28, 2022
He went on to become well-known online, with Twitter banning him for saying that women should “bear responsibility” for sexual assault.
Mr Tate has been banned from other social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, with TikTok also removing him, saying “misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated”. Fans are waiting for more news to come out.
Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, he, along with former US President Donald Trump, was recently allowed back on.
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