By Duarte Mendonça, Philip Wang and Jessie Yeung, CNN
Controversial personality Andrew Tate and his brother were sentenced to a month in detention Friday while prosecutors prosecuted human trafficking and rape charges.
The Romanian government said police on Thursday issued search warrants in five homes and arrested 4 suspects, two Britons and two Romanians, based on the investigation.
Romania’s Directorate of Investigations into Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) said the 4 suspects had been detained for 24 hours. Friday.
Speaking to reporters outside the courtroom, Vidineac said the ruling would be appealed. to Reuters.
DIICOT alleged that the 4 suspects formed an organized criminal organization stretching from Romania to Britain and the United States, with the aim of committing the crime of human trafficking.
Authorities allege that two of the suspects tricked the victims by “making them believe they intended to enter into a marriage/cohabitation relationship” while transporting the victims to Romania and subsequently sexually exploiting them with physical violence and coercion.
Authorities also said one of the suspects raped a victim twice in March 2022. At least six victims were allegedly “sexually exploited through the organized criminal group,” according to the DIICOT statement.
On Thursday, DIICOT released an edited, grainy and blurry video purporting to show the raids. A man can be seen being searched by police. It is not known who is detained in the video.
In a separate video posted through CNN partner Antena 3, the criminal firm’s agents can be seen escorting Andrew and Tristan Tate in police vehicles.
On Friday, Andrew Tate tweeted from his verified account, “The Matrix your agents. “
Andrew Tate, a former professional boxer, is known for his viral online diatribes about male dominance, female submission, and wealth. It brazenly advocates violence against women and in the past had been banned from all major social media platforms until Elon Musk reinstated his Twitter. Account after taking over the company.
He rose to fame earlier this year, with many adults adding teachers, worried that his misogynistic concepts would take root in the minds of countless children. Before it was deleted, his TikTok account had amassed around 11. 6 billion views.
He made headlines this week for a Twitter interaction with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who told Tate to have a life after tweeting about his many cars “and their respective massive emissions. “
There was an online hypothesis that the government was alerted to Tate’s presence in Romania through the appearance of a specific pizza box in one of the photos he posted in his fight with Thunberg.
But, to Reuters, a DIICOT spokesman said pizza boxes had played no role in the arrests.
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CNN’s Irene Nasser and Lauren Kent contributed to this report.
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