Posted on 12/31/2022 10:40:37 PM PST by RandFan
A Romanian court late Friday extended the detention of internet personality and ex-UFC kickboxer Andrew Tate on charges of human sex trafficking, Reuters reports.
According to Reuters, Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested Thursday on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group.
The pair were taken into custody along with two other Romanian suspects during a raid of their properties on Thursday, and were to be detained for 24 hours, according to the report.
"The four suspects appear to have created an organized crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialized websites for a cost," prosecutors said in a statement to the news outlet Thursday, later asking the court to extend the time for the suspects to be held.
"They would have gained important sums of money."
Prosecutors said they have six women who claim to have been sexually exploited by the brothers and the other suspects in the alleged ring.
"From our perspective, there are no grounds for taking this most drastic preventive measure, but it is the judge's prerogative," Reuters reported Tate's attorney Eugen Constantin Vidineac telling reporters after the court ruled Friday.
CNN reported that the raids Thursday targeted five properties, claiming the trafficking ring the brothers were a part of spanned Romania, Britain, and the United States, misleading victims into believing they were getting into "marriage or cohabitation" relationships before moving them to Romania where they were sexually exploited, coerced and exposed to physical violence.
Born in the United States, but claiming dual nationality with Great Britain, Tate rose to attention for his comments that women are partially to blame for rapes and other statements that have been called misogynistic and hate speech.
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It's important to note the First Amendment does not apply in foreign countries. Got to be damn careful...
We’ll see.
Thats correct. They run a Lonely Fans site. This smells.
He should have done this or kept it in the US where p0rn is protected speech.
Taking it to Romania or other countries? Risky and he’s going to find out why...
Of course. They can come up with any kind of charges on this kind of thing and it sounds like they will.
For one thing extending detention to 30 days? Geeez...
It’s risky business I’m telling you.
Good point. I think Andrew Tate is a target of the Left. They've already got Trump and put his head on the pike. Elon Musk is under attack.
I do not doubt that the “international community” is bribing or forcing the Romanian government to gin all this up. Last Spring they were swatted by claming he was holding women hostage, which turned out to be totally false.
Absolutely.
He’s a target.
Romania can and will come up with all kinds if they want to and alarm bells are ringing for me with this 30 day extension of his detention
Their rule of law is not exactly our concept of rule of law...
As I said, the First doesn’t apply and neither do good lawyers.
I wish him luck I really do because it does not sound great.
Yesterday they said it wasn’t about sex trafficking but money laundering
Sounds like he should bribe Romanian government officials and then get the hell out of the country.
They only need one of his models (girls) to submit a statement saying she was coerced and some judge there will rubber stamp it and he’ll be put away for decades.
It does not sound great to me....
Looks like he’s stuck there.
I think KC is right something is going on here and its gone beyond being able to get back to the safety of the US
Andrew Tate has too much influence. Therefore he must be destroyed.
Happy New Year roving.
It looks like they have come up with something better than that.
Adult / porn / webcam website now becomes “International sex trafficking ring”
And they have 30 days to get a case together which some judge will rubber stamp.
He’s in a lot of trouble (in my opinion).
Never heard of him, so watched recent interviews with Piers Morgan and others. He’s outspoken, articulate, even grammatical. Very high intelligence. His father was a chess master. Whether he is guilty of these crimes is anyone’s guess.
It is a bit ironic.
Up until a few days ago, he was apparently (far) safer, where he was.
Right up until, that may no longer be the case.
I was in a similar position. It’s because he’s big on TikTok and I’ve never used the damn thing (short video clips, ugh).
More popular with younger crowd...
Outspoken? Yes and Greta made him a lot more famous with her tweet.
However I dont like to see injustice or someone facing fabricated charges simply because of their speech or whatever.
Concerning (imo)...
The US Constitution is PRECIOUS and unique, never ever forget that.
Foreign lands will do what they want. Romania is ex-Commie state no doubt they have a lot of bad laws still on the books and 30 day detention for questioning is a big red flag.
Per Tate he was swatted, detained about money laundering, and so they took him in to make sure he was okay and released him 45 minutes later.
In this link you see him being released after the arrest.
https://rumble.com/v235i8i-andrew-tate-gets-released-after-being-arrested-full-footage.html
Disregard the link I sent you in post 19.
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