London – The self-proclaimed influencer of the Misogynous social media Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were authorized to leave Romania on a private jet intended for the United States despite accusations of rape and trafficking in human beings who are still on hold, the CBS News partner and the French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Citing sources in Romania, the points of sale said that the Tates, which are two American-British nationals, flew for Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Prosecutors in Romania allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly, 38, and his brother Tristan, 36, created a criminal business in the country and in Great Britain in 2021, as well as two women, and used it to sexually exploit several people.
The brothers have always maintained their innocence, denying all the accusations against them in Romania, as well as separate allegations made by women in Great Britain, which are still the subject of a police investigation in England.
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Tates should come back for an audience in March, according to Local media reports.
The unit of prosecution of the organized organized crime of Romania, Diicot, said that the pair had remained “under judicial surveillance” and should “appear before the judicial authorities with each assignment”, according to AFP.
“The violation of bad faith of the obligations which fall to them can lead to the replacement of the judicial control by a higher guard measure,” said Diicot.
The Romanian Aviation News BoardingPass website said Thursday that “a private plane Gulfstream G550 had taken off from Bucharest, Romania, for Fort Lauderdale” just after 6 am, local time (11 pm in the east on Wednesday).
He said the flight “will be operated constantly and will last 12 hours”.
THE Flightrader24 The follow-up website showed a plane corresponding to these flying details of Bucharest to the United States early Thursday morning.
Pressure from the Trump administration?
Diicot said in his declaration that the prosecutors had approved a “request for modification of the obligation preventing the defendants from leaving Romania”, according to the Associated Press, but he made no mention of who had made the request.
Four British women who accused Andrew Tate of rape and physical assault Between 2013 and 2016, said its concern last week that the US government could put pressure on Romania to facilitate travel restrictions on Tates, which publicly supported Trump.
THE Financial time reported earlier this month that the Trump administration was pushing the Romanian authorities to return the American passports of the Tate brothers and allowed them to leave the country.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Emil Hurezeanu Euronews Soet recently that Mr. Trump’s envoy, Richard Grenell, had raised the case with him at the Munich security conference in mid-February, but denied having been forced.
It is not clear if the United States has asked Romania to raise the ban on traveling on the tates, and there was no immediate comments from the White House or the State Department.
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Cristi Danilet, former judge of the northern city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, said that such a request would be unprecedented.
“I have never heard of a foreign government asking Romania to raise preventive measures to allow certain suspects to leave the country,” he said. “If I had been a judge, it would not have happened.”
“If it is true, it means that there is no longer any rule of law and sovereign countries,” Danilet told the news agency.
Self -proclaimed misogynum
The four British women who accused Andrew Tate responded to the news of the brothers in the United States with a joint declaration on Thursday, saying that they were “in disbelief and feel narrowed by the news that the Romanian authorities have yielded to pressure from the Trump administration to allow Andrew Tate to travel around Europe and the United States”.
“We can only hope that the British authorities finally take measures, do something for this terrifying situation and ensure that it faces justice in the United Kingdom,” they said.
British lawyer for women Matthew Jury previously told BBC that women “are the victims of the most horrible and horrible alleged crimes.”
“Seeing the most powerful man in the world supporting their alleged abuser is incredibly traumatic. He recovers for them. This is gas light,” he said.
The Crown Pursuit Service of the United Kingdom decided not to continue Andrew Tate after the charges brought by the four British women, but the women filed a civil complaint.
In a separate investigation, the Bedfordshire police obtained a European arrest warrant in 2024 for Tate and his brother Tristan “as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of rape and trafficking in human beings” in 2024. If and when it happens.
A Romanian judge decided last year that this would only happen after the end of the Romanian affair. In December, a British court judged that the police could seize millions of assets belonging to the pair in the United Kingdom due to unpaid taxes. Tate described the decision as a “coordinated attack”.
Andrew Tate, a former international kickboxing champion, first acquired a wider renown by appearing in the British reality TV show “Big Brother” in 2016, before being launched after a video that emerged showing him beat a woman with a belt.
He then won millions of followers online before being banned by Tiktok, Facebook and Youtube, who accused him of having published a speech of hate misogynist. He has more than 10 million followers on Elon Musk’s X platform, where he regularly displays homophobic and racist views.
Tate moved to Romania years ago after launching a webcam company in the United Kingdom, it had been boasting since the company was “Total scam. “”
C charitable organizations and adolescent defense groups of domestic violence have warned that the brand of extreme misogyny of the radicalization of men, and Adolescents in particularTo commit real damage.
Even after being excluded from most social media platforms, for example, the organization “Schools Nodern Irland”, which includes the British territory department, warned that “incidents involving [Tate] In schools, schools have increased considerably, “including” the verbal harassment of teachers and students, with actions reflecting the opinions of Tate “.
