American-British masculinist influencer Andrew Tate and his brother have been detained again in Romania following accusations of sexual assault committed in the United Kingdom, Romanian police announced on Tuesday.
They were arrested under “two European arrest warrants issued by British judicial authorities relating to sexual offenses and the exploitation of persons on British territory,” according to a press release.
The 37-year-old former world kickboxing champion, followed by millions of Internet users, and his brother Tristan, 35, “categorically rejected” these new allegations, saying they were “dismayed and deeply disturbed”.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal must rule today on the extension of their detention.
In June 2023, four women based in the United Kingdom formally notified their accusations in a letter demanding damages. The McCue Jury&Partners firm, which represents them, plans to publish a press release in the coming hours, it indicated on X (formerly Twitter).
The Tate brothers are currently awaiting trial in Romania in a separate case of organized human trafficking, with the courts suspecting them of having duped several women for sexual exploitation.
The two men, who proclaim their innocence, are suspected of having formed a network in early 2021 in Romania, as well as in the United States and the United Kingdom. They were arrested at the end of 2022 and spent three months in detention.
According to prosecutors, the victims were trapped by the two men, who simulated feelings towards them (the so-called + loverboy + method) before being forced “by acts of physical violence and psychological coercion” to produce pornographic films.
Andrew Tate is followed by nearly nine million people on Twitter where he shows off bulging muscles, smokes cigars and fascinates millions of teenagers with his luxury cars.