Romanian police arrested on Thursday afternoon in Bucharest former boxer and streamer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, both under investigation for their alleged involvement in an organized human trafficking criminal group.
Romania’s Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has issued a 24-hour arrest warrant after the Tate brothers were charged by the country’s Prosecutor’s Office with forming an organized criminal group that recruited, housed and forced women to create pornographic materials for distribution, Romania TV reported.
Andrew and Tristan, both British citizens with occasional residence in Romania, were raided in a house in the town of Voluntari, on the outskirts of the Romanian capital, after the police were able to prove that they were in the country.
Specifically, the Romanian authorities needed to determine that Andrew Tate was in Romania for his arrest, a fact that they were able to verify with a video that the ex-boxer posted on Wednesday on social networks and in which he responded to a taunt from the young environmentalist Greta Thunberg.
In that video, in which Tate lambasts Thunberg for her defense of the fight against climate change, a box of a popular Romanian pizza chain appears, warning the Romanian Police of his presence in the country after having been in the United States and participating in the transmission on Twitch of the also ‘streamer’ Adin Ross.
In April 2022, Police and several prosecutors found two young women, one of whom had U.S. citizenship, in a villa in Voluntari. Both women claimed that the two British brothers forcibly held them.
Andrew and Tristan Tate were later interrogated for five hours at DIICOT and then released, although investigations continued, ‘Adevarul’ has reported.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
