Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan returned to Romania, where they face Accusations of human trafficking, After their trip to Florida after their The travel ban was lifted.
THE Tate brothers Check in a police station near the capital of Romania on Monday, complying with the requirements of judicial control in the event that they are accused of forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Andrew spoke with journalists outside the Voluntari police station and said: “I am a free person who was not sentenced to anything.”
He added that he “will comply with all the judicial authorities around the world in the world because I am completely innocent”.
The Tate brothers, who are two American-British citizens, remain under a criminal investigation for the trafficking of minors, sex with minor whitening and money.
Andrew also faces An additional rape load. They both denied any reprehensible act.
The brothers remain under judicial supervision, which forces them to appear before the judicial authorities in Romania during the conviction. They had to register with a surveillance agent on March 24.
“No matter what you are accused, it is important what you are proven to have done before a fair court,” Andrew said on Monday. “The accusations do not mean anything. No matter how many times you repeat an accusation to the news. It’s garbage. “
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The brothers arrived in Romania on March 22, shortly before 1 a.m., the local time, almost a month after a travel ban that was lifted.
“Spend $ 185,000 on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign a single piece of paper in Romania. The innocent men do not run. They erase their names in court”, Andrew poster On X to its more than 10 million followers with a photo of itself on a plane.
After their arrival at their residence near the capital, Bucharest, Andrew told journalists that they had returned because “innocent men did not flee”.
“We came here to prove our innocence because we deserve our day in court,” he said.
“After all that we have experienced, we really deserve the day in court where it is indicated that we did nothing wrong and that we should never have been in court in the first place. We should never have gone to prison. We should never have seized our assets. We should never have said our names,” he said. “Whoever believed that one of these garbage has a particularly weak IQ.”
At the end of February, the brothers and sisters took a private jet from Băneasa airport in Bucharest for Fort Lauderdale, but the Governor of Florida. Ron Desantis It is clear that the brothers influencers are not welcome in his state.
Desantis said that his government had “no involvement” in Tate Brothers trips to the United States and that he had learned their return after having read on this subject “in the media”.
“Obviously, the federal government has jurisdiction. That he wants to reject his entry into the United States, I trust that it is Bondi Or Kristi NoemThey will look at that, “Desantis said At a press conference.
He said that the Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, “examines what hooks and state jurisdictions, we may have to face it.”
“But the reality is that no, Florida is not a place where you are welcome with this type of driving in the air,” added Desantis.
“And I don’t know how it happened. We were not involved.”
During an appearance on March 3 on the Podcast PPD, Andrew said The governor went to media pressure. Tate said he had an American passport and the right to visit his country of origin. He said that he had not violated any law and that he had never even been tried, and even less condemned, of a crime.
Financial time reported This Trump administration had expressed interest in the brothers’ legal affair in Romania at the Munich security conference in February.
Asked about the Tates travel on February 27, the American president Donald Trump said journalists at the Oval Office“I don’t know about it. We will check it. We will let you know.”
Andrew, 38, and Tristan, 36, were arrested near the capital of Romania At the end of 2022, With two Romanian women. Romanian prosecutors officially charged the four last year. In April, the Bucharest court judged that A test could start But did not set a date. The four deny allegations.
Andrew, a former self -proclaimed professional and misogynistic kickboxeur, said on several occasions that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him.
– With files from the Associated Press
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