The former kickboxer arrested along with his brother and two Romanian citizens
Andrew Tate, a controversial personality, has been arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group, the government confirmed.
Romanian prosecutors said they arrested the former professional boxer, banned from social media platforms for misogynistic comments and hate speech, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian citizens.
They will be detained for 24 hours, prosecutors from the Organized Crime Unit said in a raid on their homes in Bucharest.
The Tate brothers have been investigated by thieves since April, they said.
Andres Tate
“The 4 Array-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 intended for viewing on specialized programs in exchange for a fee,” prosecutors said.
“They would have made sums of money. “
Prosecutors said they discovered six who said they were sexually exploited through the suspects.
The Tate brothers declined to comment that their lawyer showed they had been detained, Reuters news firm said.
Andrew Tate, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Luton, has said in the past that women are partly to blame for the attacks and belong to men.
He first gained prominence when he appeared on the Big Brother TV screen in 2016, but said goodbye to the show after a video appeared to show him attacking a woman wearing a belt posted online, a clip he said had been edited.
It then gained notoriety online, and Twitter banned it from the social media platform earlier this year after saying women “take responsibility” for being sexually assaulted.
Tate, along with the banned figures, and former US President Donald Trump recovered their accounts after Elon Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter.
Earlier this week, climate activist Greta Thunberg told the British citizen to have a life on Twitter after telling him he was 33 with “huge emissions. “
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