ANDREW Tate and his brother were arrested last night after police raided their sumptuous Romanian mansion.
The disgraced influencer and his brother Tristan are being charged with human trafficking, according to local reports.
The couple has reportedly been investigated for the alleged abduction of two young women from their villa in the town of Voluntari.
Controversially, Tate rose to fame with a brief appearance on Big Brother, from which he was banned after alleged images of him punching a woman circulated online.
Since then, it has provoked revulsion and outrage with a wave of content.
Tate and his brother were arrested on Thursday after their home was raided through the Directorate of Investigations against Organized Crime and Terrorism (DICCOT) in Bucharest, reports Libertatea.
The brothers won arrest warrants for forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking and rape.
According to police, so far, six victims have come forward alleging that they were sexually exploited by the organized criminal group.
Footage and video show the couple being escorted out of the space handcuffed through police.
Tate, 36, is seen wearing his balaclava when balaclava-clad police took him away.
Romania’s DIICOT issued a statement but called the Tate brothers, saying two British citizens and two Romanian citizens were suspected of being part of a criminal organization targeting human trafficking.
The firm also released a video of the raid, with guns, knives appearing and demonstrating in a room.
Prosecutors told Reuters: “The 4 suspects . . . They appear to have created an organized criminal organization with the aim of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content for viewing in specialized programs at a cost.
“They would have made sums of money. “
This is the time his home has been raided as part of the investigation, after it arrived at his door in April.
Social media users believe Tate’s online dispute with eco-warrior Greta Thunberg would likely have led to his arrest as a Romanian pizza box featured in a video he posted, revealing his location.
Sources close to the investigation told Gandul that anti-mafia prosecutors learned Tate and his brother were in the country because of their social media.
Tate also posted panoramic photographs on Twitter on Christmas Day with the caption “Romania. “
Civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo says the pizza box likely revealed the location of Tate and his brother.
She tweeted: “The Romanian government needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country, so they would have used his social media posts.
“His ridiculous video showed a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry’s Pizza, confirming that he was in the country. “
Greta responded to the claims on Twitter by writing, “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes. “
But Romanian police later said the pizza box was “unrelated” to his arrest.
“It’s related,” a police spokeswoman told AFP.
“To find out if a user is in the country or not, we use a variety of means. “
She that “arrest warrants and raids” had already been placed.
Tate criticized Wednesday for having “a little bit of killer energy” through Greta.
He tried trolling the 19-year-old with a list from his collection.
The kickboxer tried to taunt the climate replacement activist by boasting about the “huge emissions” from his vehicles.
He showed up to send her a list of his 33 cars, a Bugatti, if she gave him his email address.
However, Greta responded via her “smalld**kenergy@getalife. com” email address.
Rapper Cardi B gave the impression of mocking Tate after his arrest when she shared a link to an article about it, tweeting simply: “Well, okay. . . “
Later, he posted a maiden symbol of Greta with the caption “IDC” (I don’t care).
After abandoning the truth display, Tate, born in Big Brother, Washington, D. C. , was accused of spreading hatred toward women while building his profile.
The influencer was banned from Twitter in 2017 for violating its terms of service with his questionable comments.
In the past, he called women “property” and said they take “some responsibility” if they are sexually assaulted.
In August, Tate banned a number of other social media sites.
TikTok banned him for misogyny, while Meta said it violated its policies related to “other dangerous people and organizations. “
It’s banned from YouTube.
Tate denied allegations of misogyny and claimed that many of his clips “were taken out of context. “
Tate’s Twitter account has now been reactivated after the acquisition of Elon Musk.
A spokesman for Andrew and Tristan told The Sun: “We cannot provide any main points at this time relating to allegations that they have been detained; however, Andrew and Tristan Tate have the utmost respect for the Romanian government and will help and assist in any way they can. “
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