Former kickboxing champion turned online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have officially been charged following a lengthy criminal probe in Romania into alleged human trafficking and organised crime.
After being imprisoned without charge for nearly six months, initially in actual prison and under house arrest since March, Andrew and Tristan Tate, along with two Romanian women, have been charged with human trafficking and forming an organised criminal enterprise.
In addition, Andrew Tate has been charged with raping one woman and his brother Tristan has been charged with instigating violence, Sky News reports.
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The investigators from Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) alleged that the brothers, in 2021, began a human trafficking effort in Romania as well as in the United States and United Kingdom from where they allegedly recruited women, using promises of marriage and love to convince them to come to Romania, whereupon they were allegedly sexually exploited and forced into doing pornography.
Read more: Breitbart
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