Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to exploit women in Romania.
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Charges have also been filed against Tate's brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women. The charges were filed by Romania's anti-organized crime agency.
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The agency alleges that the four defendants formed a criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, the United States, and Britain.
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Seven female victims were allegedly misled and transported to Romania, where they were sexually exploited and subjected to physical violence by the gang. One defendant is accused of raping a woman twice in March 2022.
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Andrew Tate, who has resided in Romania since 2017, has claimed that the case is a political conspiracy designed to silence him.
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The Tate brothers, who are dual British-U.S. citizens, and the two Romanian suspects were detained in late December in Bucharest. They won an appeal on March 31 to be moved from police custody to house arrest.
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Andrew Tate was a successful social media figure with more than 6 million Twitter followers, many of them young men and schoolchildren. He was previously banned from TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.
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The alleged victims were recruited with false declarations of love and taken to Romania's Ilfov county, where they were forced to participate in pornography.
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Prosecutors ordered the confiscation of the Tate brothers' assets, including 15 luxury cars, luxury watches, and about $3 million in cryptocurrency.
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Several women in Britain are also pursuing civil claims to obtain damages from Tate, alleging they were victims of sexual violence.
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