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A Romanian court has decided to place Andrew Tate under house arrest, as confirmed by his representative late last night, according to Reuters. The popular social media influencer, who holds both British and American citizenship, is currently being investigated for human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

A Romanian court has ordered controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother to be moved from prison to house arrest while they are investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape. Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested at the end of December and have since been remanded in custody, which was extended again last week.

A Romanian court has extended the detention of controversial influencer Andrew Tate, who is being investigated along with his brother for alleged human trafficking and rape, AFP reported. Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested at the end of December last year and Romanian judges have since extended their detention every month.

Bulgarian police stopped former Romanian Minister of Tourism and Development Elena Udrea from leaving the country after hearing that a Romanian court had sentenced her to six years in prison.

The final verdict confirmed a sentence originally issued in June 2018 for bribery, abuse of office and tax evasion over a boxing match.

A judgment issued on Tuesday by the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ordered Romania to pay a victim of domestic abuse 10,000 euros for failing to protect her when police refused to investigate her husband for breaching her internet privacy. The court recognised this as one of "the various forms that domestic violence may take". 

US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, lobbied the Romanian President for the release of a Romanian businessman whose lawyer had turned to Giuliani for help after the businessman was convicted in Romania for corruption in 2016, CNN has reported.

A Romanian court jailed business tycoon Sorin Ovidiu Vantu for 10 years and six months on Thursday for embezzling funds from the Petromservice oil company employees association during 2005 and 2006.

A Romanian court has placed one of the country's best-known transplant surgeons under supervision, after he was accused of embezzling public funds for 17 years.

Prosecutors detained Mihai Lucan and his son, Ciprian Lucan, last Wednesday. The court rejected their request to investigate them in detention.

A Romanian court has ruled that a Turkish woman wanted in Turkey on alleged links to militants must remain in custody until her extradition hearing.

Nalan Oral, who has political refugee status in Belgium, was detained by Romanian border guards on July 8. Her lawyer Alin Speriusi-Vlad told the Associated Press on July 17 she was detained because her name appeared on an Interpol list.

Money reclaimed by a specialist agency in Roamnia from convicted officials is already being channelled to government projects related to civic education, crime prevention and victim protection, it has been announced.

The government says it aims to recover over half a billion euros from former officials and businessmen sentenced for graft-related crimes.