Andrew Tate will be allowed to leave Romania while he awaits trial on human trafficking charges, a court has ruled.
The controversial influencer and his brother Tristan can travel within the EU without restrictions while awaiting trial, the Bucharest Court has ruled. Until Friday, the Tates were prohibited from going out Romania where he awaits trial.
The decision is not final and can be appealed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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Tate37 years old, was accused in mid-2023 along with his brother of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Two female suspects from Romania were also charged as part of the case.
They all denied the allegations against them.
In a post on social media platform X on Friday, Tate wrote: “I’m free. For the first time in three years I can leave Romania.
He also referred to the accusations as a “fake case” before announcing a platform that claims to teach money-making skills.
Tate, who has nearly 10 million followers on X, echoed these sentiments in a video accompanying the post and added: “The process is the punishment, in the end I will be innocent.”
“My judges decided… I’m allowed to leave Romania, so we took the (Ferrari) SF90 to Italy, the (Maserati) MC20 to Cannes, the (Ferrari) 812 Competition to Paris, where should I go?”
The Tate brothers, both former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship, were held in police custody during the criminal investigation between late December 2022 and April 2023 to prevent them from fleeing the country or tampering with evidence.
They were then placed under house arrest until August, when the courts placed them under judicial control, a lighter preventative measure.
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“Andrew and Tristan are still determined to clear their name and reputation; however, they are grateful to the courts for placing confidence in them,” said the brothers’ lead defense lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, in a statement.
Romanian prosecutors said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming they wanted a relationship or marriage.
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They stated that the victims were then taken to properties outside the capital, Bucharest, and through physical violence and mental intimidation were sexually exploited, being forced to produce pornographic content for social networking sites that generated large financial gains.
In a separate case, Tate was notified at his home in Romania with a civil action filed by four British women after a complaint was issued by London’s High Court, according to a statement released in May by McCue Jury & Partners, the law firm representing the four women.
The four allege that Tate sexually and physically assaulted them and reported him to British authorities in 2014 and 2015.
After a four-year investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service decided in 2019 not to prosecute him.
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The alleged victims then turned to crowdfunding to file a civil case against him.
In a third case, the Tate brothers also appeared in the Bucharest Court of Appeal in March after British authorities issued arrest warrants over allegations of sexual assault in a UK case dating back to 2012 and 2015.
The appeals court granted the British extradition request for the Tates to the United Kingdom, but only after the conclusion of the legal process in Romania.
Tate, a self-described misogynist, has won millions of fans by promoting an ultra-masculine lifestyle that critics say
denigrates women.
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