What to know about tate brothers, social media influences facing traffic charges

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – a travel prohibition has been raised Brothers Influencer Andrew and Tristan Tatewho are accused of trafficking in people in Romania and are directed to the United States, officials said on Thursday.

The brothers are Avid supporters of President Donald Trump and have millions of followers online. It was not clear under what conditions they were allowed to leave Romania or where they were heading in the United States.

Here are some things to know about the tate brothers:

Who are your father’s brothers?

Andrew Tate, 38 years old, and Tristan Tate, 36 are American dual citizens.

Andrew Tate is a former professional and misogynistic kickboxer, who has gathered over 10 million followers on X. It also drives an online academy Where he says he teaches young people how to get rich and attract women. Tristan Tate is also a former kickboxer.

What are they accused of in Romania?

The Tate brothers and two Romanian women were arrested in Bucharest at the end of 2022.

The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism assumed that the four defendants formed a criminal group in 2021 “to commit crime of human trafficking” in Romania, as well as in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Initially they were formal accused Last year. In April, he drove the Bucharest Court that a process could start But did not set up a meeting.

In December, a court in Bucharest decided that the case against the Tits and the two Romanian women could not go to the trial due to multiple the legal and procedural irregularities from prosecutors.

The case has not been closed and there is also a separate legal case against the Romanian brothers.

Andrew Tate repeatedly argued that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to shut up. But they were accused of forming a criminal band to sexually exploit women, among other accusations.

What has led to lifting travel prohibition?

DIICOT, the anti-organized crime agency in Romania, said on Thursday that the prosecutors approved a “request to amend the obligation that prevents the defendants from leaving Romania”, but that the judicial control measures remained in force. The agency did not say who made the request.

The control measures include the requirement to “present themselves in front of the judicial authorities whenever it has been called”, it is stated in the statement.

The agency said that the father was “warned that the deliberate violation of these obligations can lead to the replacement of the judicial control with a stricter deprivation of the measure of freedom.”

Their departure came after the Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu said this month that an American official in the current Trump administration expressed interest in the legal case of Romanian brothers at the Munich Security Conference. The minister insisted that he did not rise to pressure.

Why were Dads left to leave Romania?

Criminal cases in Romania can often shoot for 5 to 10 years, and the accused can, in some cases, leave the country at that time, unless the judicial restrictions stipulate otherwise, said the former Romanian judge Cristi Danilet.

But it is not clear if it is rare that someone accused of serious accusations, such as trafficking in persons or rape, leave the country, while one case is still in progress.

But the case of defamation of Tate Brothers in Florida?

A hearing was set on Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, in a defamation process introduced by the tate brothers against a woman who accused him of closing it in Romania.

The hearing in the court of Palm Beach County refers to a woman’s motion, identified as Jane Doe, looking for an indefinite delay in the process, so that the procedures in Romania can continue.

Tats lawyers say there is no reason to delay the case of defamation. “The Romanian process will take several years,” their lawyer said in a court file.

The father’s brothers submitted the defamation process in July 2023.

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Anderson reported from St. Petersburg, Florida. Reporter Associated Press, Stephen McGrath, contributed to this story in Sighisoara, Romania.