Fri 20 January 2023:
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate are to stay in police custody for another month after a Romanian court extended their detention, according to multiple reports.
Tate and his brother, Tristan, are to stay in Romanian custody until February 27, while police build their case, the judge ruled, according to the BBC and Sky News.The reasons for this extension will be given in a written statement later.
Tate and his brother both deny the allegations against them.
Meanwhile, detectives investigating the claims against Tate have seized £3.2m worth of assets including luxury vehicles, watches and cash, from his home in Bucharest.
Tate was arrested at the end of December as part of a human-trafficking investigation in Romania.
Tate, a 36-year-old British-US citizen, has more than 4 million followers on Twitter and was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing ‘misogynistic’ views and ‘hate speech’.
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The brothers’ lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, told local news outlet Gândul that there is no evidence to convict his clients.
But he stopped short of defending Tate’s suggestions that the events are a dark conspiracy against him.
At the time of their arrest, on December 29, a court approved a request from authorities to jail the group for 30 days. An appeal to be released earlier this month was also denied.
Last week, two women came forward saying they worked with Tate without issue, and claimed prosecutors wrongly named them as victims in the case.
The women, known only by their first names Beatrice and Jasmin, showed tattoos they had gotten reading: “Property of Tate” and “Tate Girl.”
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SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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