Andrew Tate: Romanian Judge Grants 30-Day Extension Of Tate Detention

BUCHAREST, RUSSIA — An official in Romania said Friday that a judge granted a request to extend Andrew Tate’s detention in the country for another 30 days on charges of being a member of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.

Tate, a British-American citizen with 4.7 million Twitter followers, was detained on December 29 in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. Tristan, his brother, and two Romanian women were all arrested and held in the same case.

According to Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, prosecutors requested the second 30-day extension on Thursday to keep all four in detention while the investigation was ongoing. According to her, the request was granted by a judge on Friday.

The Bucharest Tribunal decision came after all four lost an appeal last week in a Bucharest court against a judge’s December 30 ruling to extend their arrests from 24 hours to 30 days.

The Tates are also likely to appeal the extension granted on Friday.

Lawyers Thought Tates Ruling Was Unjustified

According to Ioan Gliga, a Tate brother’s lawyer, the Friday ruling was “completely unjustified.”

“The session was only an hour ago, and the file has 20 volumes,” he said. “I find it very difficult to believe that someone has the physical capacity to study the file in such a short time, as it only arrived at the tribunal yesterday.”

“I’m in detention as they ‘look’ for evidence,” Andrew Tate wrote on Twitter on Thursday. They will never find evidence because we are not guilty. They have and will continue to ignore any testimony or hard evidence (that we are innocent).”

“My case isn’t about telling the truth. “This is about politics,” the post went on to say.

Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has been living in Romania since 2017, was previously barred from using several popular social media platforms to express misogynistic and hateful views.

Police seized assets valued at $3.9 million.

Last week, Romanian authorities raided a compound near Bucharest and towed away a fleet of luxury vehicles, including a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, and a Porsche. They reported seizing assets valued at $3.9 million.

Prosecutors have stated that if they can prove the owners made money through illegal activities such as human trafficking, the assets will be used to cover investigation costs and compensate victims. Tate also lost his appeal against the asset seizure.

DIICOT said in a statement after the Tates and the two women were arrested in December that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and sexually exploited by members of the alleged crime group.

According to the agency, the victims were lured with fake promises of love and then forced to do recorded pornographic acts by being threatened, watched, and subjected to other forms of control.

SOURCE – (AP)