In connection with an investigation into rape and human trafficking, police stormed Andrew Tate’s lavish mansion last night and took him into arrest in Romania.
Romanian prosecutors stated after raids on his villa and other properties close to Bucharest that the 36-year-old renowned social media figure, along with his brother Tristan, were arrested for 24 hours as part of the investigation.
According to prosecutors, the brothers are suspects in an alleged organized crime ring that allegedly coerced at least six women to act in pornographic recordings that were then sold online while also housing them and forcing them to be sexually exploited.
Romania’s police, crime, and investigation unit, DIICOT, reported on Thursday that it had conducted out five home raids after obtaining search warrants.
The raids were conducted as a part of an ongoing investigation into a gang, human trafficking abroad, and rape.
The suspects at the focus of the investigation were listed in the police statement as two British and two Romanian citizens, but their names were not given.
Tristan and Andrew Tate each hold dual citizenship with the US and the UK. The brothers, who had a British mother and an American father, split their childhood between the two nations.
The two British suspects, according to the police, pretended to love and want to marry their female victims in order to entice them.
The victims were then taken to locations in the county of Ilfov outside of Bucharest, where they were allegedly “sexually exploited” and made to appear in pornographic recordings for online distribution, according to a police statement.
According to police, the suspects intimidated the women, kept an eye on them constantly, controlled them, and used claimed debts to get them to comply with their demands.
As reported by the police, a total of six victims have come forward and claimed the organized criminal gang sexually victimized them.
Cops withheld the names of the individuals whose Romanian homes were searched, but photographs from the searches looked to unmistakably correspond to images of Tate’s residence that had previously been shared on social media.
The four suspects, according to the police, were imprisoned for 24 hours after being taken in for questioning yesterday.
A former Romanian policewoman’s home was also raided on Thursday, according to local press sources, and she was taken in for interrogation as part of the investigation.
Tate, who was raised in Luton, England after being born in Chicago, Illinois, has a questionable image as a result of his numerous business ventures.
He allegedly established a webcam business in Romania with his brother Tristan where young models gave unwary male viewers sob stories.
Tate asserts that despite earlier calling the website “a terrible hoax,” he has profited millions from it.
Tate ran into trouble last week after a Twitter argument with environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
In order to explain the “enormous pollution” his gas-guzzling performance automobiles emitted, he called her out and tweeted a photo of himself filling up his Bugatti supercar. He asked her to submit him her email address.
“Hello Greta Thunberg,” tweeted Tate on Tuesday. I have 33 vehicles. A W16 8.0L quad-turbo engine powers my Bugatti. I have TWO 6.5L v12 engines in my Ferrari 812 Competitzione. Only the beginning lies ahead. If you could provide me your email, I can send you a list of all the vehicles in my collection, along with their massive emissions.
In a tweet sent to her 4.9 million followers yesterday, Miss Thunberg delivered a scathing retort, writing: “Yes, please do enlighten me. Contact me via email at smalld***[email protected].
Till Elon Musk gave him permission to use the social media site once more last month, Tate had been barred from Twitter since 2017.
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