Former boxer and streamer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate appeared Tuesday before an appeals court in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, to defend their release after the Romanian judiciary ordered a 30-day remand in custody against them.
«We are waiting for the decision, which we hope will be a favorable solution for our clients,» said one of the Tate brothers’ lawyers, Eugen Vidineac, as he left the courtroom, the daily ‘Libertatea’ reported.
Tate, whose legal team is working to win the appeal of his 30-day remand, has arrived at the court premises with a Koran in his hand. The brothers’ lawyers also appealed the courts’ decision to seize their luxury assets. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency seized their belongings to assist in the case.
Romanian police arrested the Tate brothers as part of an investigation into their alleged involvement in a criminal organization dedicated to human trafficking and rape through which they allegedly obtained significant sums of money for the purchase of houses, luxury cars and investment in cryptocurrencies.
The Romanian Prosecutor’s Office accuses both brothers of having formed an organized criminal group through which they recruited, hosted and forced women to create materials with pornographic content for subsequent distribution.
The arrest by the Police at their mansion took place after Tate posted a video on social networks and in which he responded to a taunt by the young environmentalist Greta Thunberg, while eating pizza from a popular Romanian brand.
The appearance of the pizza box in the video made it clear that Tate was in Romanian territory, which allowed the authorities of the European country to accelerate the case and finally break into the place where the well-known ‘streamer’, of ultraconservative ideology and skeptic of climate change, was staying.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
