London – CBS News Network Network Network Network Network Network Network Network Network Network Network Network News News and French News reported Thursday that self-proclaimed misogynistic social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were allowed to leave Romania, still on a private jet despite facing rape and still-trial allegations of trafficking in persons. The media quoted Romanian sources as saying that Thais, who are dual American British nationals, are flying to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Romanian prosecutors have claimed for years that Andrew, 38, and his brothers Tristan, 36, have set up a crime business in the country and in 2021 in the UK and used it with two women and used it for sexual use.
The brothers have maintained their innocence, denying all allegations against them in Romania, as well as separate charges by British women, which are still under investigation by the English police.
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According to local media reports, TATE will return to the hearing in March.
AFP said the Romanian organized crime prosecution department Dikot said the two were still “under judicial supervision” and had to “appear before the judicial authorities in every subpoena”.
“Breach of law against their obligations could lead to higher detention measures in place of judicial control,” Diicot said.
“The Gulfstream G550 private jet took off from Bucharest, Romania, to Fort Lauderdale, just 6 a.m. (11 p.m. Wednesday), Romanian aviation news website Boardingpass said on Thursday.
It said the flight “will be operated continuously and will last for 12 hours.”
The Flighttrader24 tracking website shows that an aircraft matched these details and flew from Bucharest to the United States.
Pressure from the Trump administration?
In a statement, Dicott said prosecutors approved “a request to amend obligations to prevent the defendant from leaving Romania”, but according to the Associated Press, no mention of who made the request.
Four British women accused Andrew Tate of last week of potential pressure on Romania to alleviate forced travel restrictions on Trump’s public support for Mr. Trump’s TATES.
The Financial Times reported earlier this month that the Trump administration is prompting Romanian authorities to return to the Tate Brothers’ U.S. passports and allow them to leave the country.
Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu recently told European media that Mr. Trump’s specialty, Richard Grenell, filed a lawsuit with him at the Munich security conference in mid-February, but denied that he was under pressure.
It is unclear whether the United States requires Romania to lift the travel ban on trends, and the White House or the State Department did not comment immediately.
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Cristi Danilet, a former judge in the northern Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, told the Associated Press that such a request would be unprecedented.
“I have never heard of a foreign government asking Romania to remove preventive measures to allow some suspects to leave the country,” he said. “If I were a judge, that would not have happened.”
“If it is true, it means there is no longer a rule of law and sovereign state,” Dennett told the news agency.
Professed to be misogynistic
Four British women accusing Andrew Tate of the brothers went to the U.S. through a joint statement Thursday, saying they were “unbelievable and felt that the news exerted by Romanian authorities gave the Trump administration the pressure on Andrew Tate to allow Andrew Tate to travel in Europe and the United States”.
They said: “We can only hope that the British authorities finally take action to do something about this horrible development situation and ensure that he faces justice in the UK.”
Women’s British lawyer Matthew Jury had previously told the BBC that women were “the victims of the most terrible and terrible crimes”.
“It’s incredibly traumatic to see the most powerful people in the world support their so-called abusers. It’s reshaping for them. It’s a kind of gas,” he said.
The UK’s Crown Prosecutor’s Office decided not to prosecute Andrew Tate after allegations from four British women, but the women have filed civil lawsuits.
Bedfordshire Police have obtained a European arrest warrant for Tate and his brother Tristan in 2024 as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of rape and trafficking in 2024. If when does it happen.
Romanian judges decided last year that this would only happen after the Romanian case was over. In December, a British court ruled that police could catch Millions of assets Due to the lack of tax payment, it belongs to the UK pair. Tate described the decision as a “coordinated attack.”
Former international kickboxing champion Andrew Tate first appeared on the 2016 British reality TV show Big Brother, and was kicked out of a wider reputation after appearing in a video and kicked off in a video showing him beating a woman with a belt.
He then gained millions of followers online and was banned by Tiktok, Facebook and YouTube, which accused him of posting hate speeches about misogyny. He has over 10 million followers on Elon Musk’s platform X, where he regularly posts gay and racist views.
Tate moved to Romania after starting a webcam business in the UK a few years ago, which he reportedly boasted about being a “total scam”.
Domestic abuse charities and school advocacy groups warn that Tate’s brand of extreme misogyny can cause radical men, especially teenage boys, to cause real-world harm.
Even though most social media platforms were banned, the “Safer Schools in Northern Ireland” group, including the British Territory Education Department, warned that “the incident involving him” [Tate] In the school, “including “verbal harassment of female teachers and students also reflects Tate’s views.”
Haley Ott contributed to the report.
