A Romanian court has approved Friday to extend for a month the detention of former boxer and ‘streamer’ Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, investigated for their alleged involvement in a criminal organization dedicated to human trafficking and rape.
The court has thus accepted the request of the Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) to extend their pre-trial detention while investigations continue. The detention of two suspects, a former policewoman and Andrew Tate’s girlfriend, has also been extended, according to the Romanian news agency Agerpres.
All of them are suspected of forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women who were forced to create pornographic material for dissemination over the Internet for profit. The suspects have denied the allegations.
Investigators allege that the Tate brothers lured the women under the pretext of starting a relationship, after which they moved them to Ilfov County, where they were forced to produce such content through physical violence, intimidation and blackmail.
The arrest by the Police at his 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)
