Andrew Tate, accused of rape and traffic in Romania, returns to the USA

The controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tatewho face both accusations in Romania, including trafficking in people And sexual relations with a minor, arrived in the United States after a travel prohibition was raised, according to the spokesman and Romanian prosecutors.

A spokesman for the brothers, Matea Petrescu, said the two landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, around noon, Associated Press reported.

After landing, Andrew Tate said in a statement that “my brother and I are largely understood.”

“There are a lot of opinions about us dealing with the Internet. We have not yet been convicted of any crime in our lives. We have no criminal registration anywhere on the planet,” he said.

Prior to their arrival, Joseph McBride, the US Tate Brothers lawyer, said NBC News on Thursday morning, he will not comment on whether the State Department or the White House was involved in lifting the travel ban. Also, a Trump official refused to comment on the arrival of the Tate brothers in the United States. The State Department also refused to comment.

When asked about the arrival of the father in the US, President Donald Trump said he did not know the problem, but he will look at her.

“Our position is that Andrew and Tristan have been Lawfare for a long time,” McBride said. “They kept the innocence, arguing that the accusations against them are defamatory and false.”

Asked about the tate brothers entering the state, the Florida government, Ron Desantis, said it is under the jurisdiction of the federal government “if they want to replace their entry into the United States.”

The father’s brothers, who are a dual-British American citizens, have been reported by the Romanian media to have taken a private plane from the country to the US on Thursday.

Brothers left Romania while underneath Criminal investigation Over the accusations of an organized criminal group, in addition to human trafficking, minor trafficking, sex with a minor and money laundering. Have denied any offense.

The Directorate of Romania for the investigation of organized crime and terrorism, or DIICOT, said in a statement on Thursday that the prosecutors approved a “request to modify the obligation, preventing the defendants from leaving Romania”, but said Judicial control measures He remained in place, reported Associated Press. The agency did not extend to those who made the request.

The father’s brothers would still be expected to present themselves before the judicial authorities, if called and have been warned that the violation of their obligations could “lead to the replacement of judicial control with a stricter deprivation of freedom,” said DIICOT.

Andrew Tate, 38, and Tristan Tate, 36 years old arrested near BucharestThe capital of Romania, in 2022, together with two Romanian women, with all four accused by Romanian prosecutors last year.

The Bucharest Court decided in April that a trial could go on, but did not establish once, all four denying the accusations against them.

Dad’s brother departure comes after an American woman who says brothers tried to recruit her in a webcam sex traffic ring submitted a contract against them This month, claiming that they defamed it after testifying to the Romanian authorities.

Jane Doe’s counter came after the father’s brothers sued for defamation in 2023, accusing her and another woman of given the Romanian authorities made by evidence and conspired to deceive and fake them.

Her costume was the first US trial against Tate brothers, who are both former kickboxers.

McBride, the brothers’ lawyer, said it is expected that a zoom session will take place on Thursday, in a defamation process, which the brothers submitted to the Court Court Circuit, but added that this was a coincidence and unprecedening.

Asked why the Romanian authorities granted the brothers permission to leave, McBride added that their defamation case against the government “put a crack in the” accusations against them, pointing to “corruption” in Romania.

Matthew Jury, a lawyer who represented British women who filed criminal complaints against Andrew Tate in the UK, He said he said that the Trump administration played a role in the Tate brothers, who are allowed to leave Romania for the US were “equal and dismayed parts.”

NBC News was not able to check independently if Washington has played any developing role. The Trump administration did not respond immediately to a comment request.

McBride refused to comment on whether the White House was involved in the departure of the Tate brothers from Romania.

“There is clear evidence to support the accusations against Tate that he is one of the worst traffickers in the world and serial rapists,” Jury said on Thursday about Andrew Tate in X. But he added: “Any suggestion that Tats will now face justice in Romania is fantasy.”

The lawyer asked the British government to intervene and act in order to see the extradited Tate brothers in the United Kingdom to cope with the accusations of “trafficking in people and rapes that they were supposed to have committed in this jurisdiction.”

The British government did not immediately comment on developments.