Romania Charges Andrew Tate with Human Trafficking and Rape

The Romanian organised crime prosecutors on Tuesday charged brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate with organising a criminal group, aggravated human trafficking, aggravated rape, unlawful access to a computer system, tampering with the integrity of computer data and instigating battery or other violence.

Two alleged female accomplices of the Tate brothers were also charged with being part of the same criminal group.

Together they plotted to commit human trafficking in Romania but also in countries such as the US and Britain, according to the prosecutors.

The organised criminal group run by Andrew and Tristan Tate is alleged to have sexually exploited seven people.

The prosecutors said that the brothers recruited their victims by falsely claiming they were in love with them and promising marriage.

"The exploited persons were later transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county, near Bucharest, where, by exercising acts of physical violence and mental coercion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and invoking alleged debts), members of the [organised crime] group sexually exploited them by forcing them to perform pornographic demonstrations to produce and disseminate through some social media platforms," the prosecutors said in a statement.

The prosecutors have seized various assets belonging to the Tate brothers, including 15 plots of land and buildings in Ilfov, Prahova and Brasov counties, 15 luxury cars and 14 luxury watches.

They also seized various sums of money including 86,580 Romanian lei, 52,650 euros, 17,430 US dollars, 10,370 British pounds and 21 bitcoins allegedly worth 384,904 US dollars.

The Tate brothers became famous as social media influencers promoting a luxurious lifestyle...