{"id":29125,"date":"2023-01-10T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29125"},"modified":"2023-01-10T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:35:03","slug":"andrew-tate-legal-appeal-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/01\/10\/andrew-tate-legal-appeal-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Tate legal appeal rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Romanian court has rejected Andrew Tate\u2019s appeal against his detention, ruling that the former kickboxer, influencer and professed misogynist must remain in custody while an organised crime investigation continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tate, 36, his brother Tristan, 34, and two Romanian female suspects were arrested by prosecutors on 29 December on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group to exploit women. Both men have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0defendants were appealing\u00a0against the seizure of belongings and prolongation of their arrest warrants, but the Bucharest appeals court on Tuesday ordered all four held in preventive detention for the full 30 days to which they were remanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am very disappointed \u2013 the measure seems excessive to me,\u201d the brothers\u2019 lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, told local media after the ruling, which was announced several hours after the two brothers left the courthouse after a six-hour hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 15 luxury cars and more than 10 properties or plots of land have so far been seized in Romania. The country\u2019s organised crime agency, Diicot, said the belongings were confiscated to prevent them being concealed, to help pay for the investigation, and to pay damages to victims if the suspects are convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency and prosecutors in the Romanian capital allege that the two brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a romantic relationship \u2013 the so-called \u201cloverboy\u201d method of people trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims were then allegedly taken to properties on the outskirts of Bucharest where they were forced \u201cthrough physical violence, mental intimidation and coercion\u201d to produce pornographic content for social media sites, generating large profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors have said the investigation, launched after one of the brothers allegedly raped one of the trafficked women last March, had so far identified six victims. Diicot released video showing guns, knives and money at the scene of the Tates\u2019 arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A judge who last week extended their preventive detention from 24 hours to 30 days said that given their \u201cfinancial capacity\u201d, the possibility the brothers may \u201cevade investigation, leave Romania and settle in countries that do not allow extradition \u2026 cannot be ignored\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vidineac had earlier argued there was \u201cno evidence\u201d to support the allegations. He told\u00a0the Romanian news outlet G\u00e2ndul\u00a0that the defence had not been able to properly study the prosecution\u2019s file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will point this out from the beginning, that even up to the present moment, the criminal investigation file has not been made available to us to ensure the effective defence of our clients,\u201d he said in a videotaped interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He insisted there was \u201cnot a single piece of evidence, apart from the victim\u2019s statement, leading to the idea that a crime of rape was committed\u201d, and \u201cno evidence either regarding \u2026 offences of human trafficking and organised crime\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vidineac said he believed Tate had been playing a particular kind of character on social media that may bear no relation to real life. \u201cCan intent on social media stand as evidence in a criminal prosecution case?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tate, who holds both US and British citizenship, has gained huge notoriety for misogynistic remarks and hate speech, prompting widespread fears that his videos were radicalising young males online. He has said women are partially responsible for being raped, and that they belong to men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one podcast last year, he said he started making money by convincing girlfriends to videochat and share the profits. He has also said he moved to Romania from the UK because he liked living in countries \u201cwhere corruption was accessible\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was banned from all major social media platforms, but his Twitter account \u2013 which has 4.4 million followers \u2013 was reinstated late last year after Elon Musk took over the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Romanian court has rejected Andrew Tate\u2019s appeal against his detention, ruling that the former kickboxer, influencer and professed misogynist must remain in custody while an organised crime investigation continues. Tate, 36, his brother Tristan, 34, and two Romanian female suspects were arrested by prosecutors on 29 December on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[11264,9173,9306,6975,5777,5268,9305,11583,5520,7960,8023,10460,11282,1384,10507,11139,9304,9597,4119,7209,12210,11638,3722,10234,9372,11493,10197,12005,9408,8029,10776,12309,9409,5612,7259,11973,6332,12114,11167,5762,7342,8709,10233,12778,5349,10041,7592,1338,9313,11056,5350,12605,6348,9539,8033,3954,5320,594,5140],"class_list":["post-29125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-allegations","tag-andrew-tate","tag-appeal","tag-arrest","tag-banned","tag-british","tag-bucharest","tag-capital","tag-cars","tag-case","tag-citizenship","tag-coercion","tag-convicted","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-detention","tag-diicot","tag-elon-musk","tag-extradition","tag-female","tag-forced","tag-guns","tag-human-trafficking","tag-influencer","tag-interview","tag-investigation","tag-judge","tag-kickboxer","tag-land","tag-lawyer","tag-men","tag-misogynist","tag-money","tag-musk","tag-one","tag-online","tag-organised-crime","tag-prosecution","tag-rape","tag-raped","tag-romania","tag-romanian","tag-seized","tag-social-media","tag-speech","tag-tiktok","tag-top-100-uk-influencers","tag-trafficking","tag-tristan","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-victims","tag-video","tag-will","tag-women","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}