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Romanian police have seized 11 luxury cars from notorious misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they were both arrested on traffic charges.
The cars were seized following his high-profile arrest on December 29, and Romanian investigators confirmed the seizures today.
Romanian media Slacker Published photos that he said showed the 11 cars, potentially worth millions of pounds, in the driveway of the Tate property in Bucharest.
If it is determined that they were purchased through criminal activity by the brothers, the luxury vehicles could end up in the custody of authorities.
Romanian police have seized 11 luxury cars from notorious misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they were both arrested on traffic charges. Pictured: Tate appears in a video in front of at least two of the cars that have been seized by investigators (a Rolls-Royce and an Aston Martin)
Andrew Tate, 36, was seen in footage earlier this week behind bars as he was escorted to the Romanian detention center on Thursday night after the surprise assault on his £600,000 concrete hideout on the outskirts of Bucharest. .
Pictured next to the millionaire in the van were Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel, who are accused of luring women to the compound and then “coercing” and “controlling” them to create social media pornography.
Among the collection of cars seized by authorities are a Rolls-Royce Wraith from the automaker’s Black Badge range and an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate, both of which have been featured in videos posted online by Tate.
According to TopGear.com, the Rolls-Royce is worth at least $300,000, while the Aston Martin is around $250,000.
A video uploaded by the former Big Brother contestant to Youtube it shows that he apparently bought the Wraith on a whim while walking through London with an entourage, which included his brother.
According to Romania spy newsa Buggati Chiron (worth about $2.9 million), two Ferraris, and a Porsche were among the other cars that were seized.
Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for Romania’s DIICOT investigative agency, confirmed that the cars had been seized for insider.com.
She told the publication that the fleet was being held to “defend the cost of the investigation” into Tate, and would be used as collateral to fund any payments to alleged victims of the brothers’ alleged crimes.
Bolla added that investigators were working to establish whether the Tate brothers bought the car with funds obtained through human trafficking.
Pictured: Andrew Tate poses next to a Buggati Chiron in a now-famous photograph after he used it to mock environmental activist Greta Thunberg shortly before her arrival. According to Spy News, the Buggati is one of the cars that was seized
Tate’s copper-colored Buggati Chiron became famous after he posted a photo of him filling up his tank while flaunting his collection of 33 luxury cars in an effort to poke fun at 19-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
“Please provide your email address so I can send you a full list of my car collection and their respective huge releases,” he tweeted alongside the image, tagging Miss Thunberg.
She replied: ‘Yes, please enlighten me. email me at smalld***energy@getalife.com’, to which Tate responded with a two-minute video of himself smoking a cigar in a bathrobe, sitting in front of pizza boxes.
Tate and his brother were arrested a few hours after he posted the video, with Ms Thunberg having the last laugh, jokingly writing: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.”
Pictured: Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers out of the Bucharest Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) headquarters after being detained for 24 hours, in Bucharest, Romania, on December 29, 2022.
In images posted earlier this week, the influencer was seen behind bars.
The images, also taken by Slackerit showed Tate dressed in a black hoodie on the side of the van with Naghel, his alleged girlfriend of a year, who in turn was sitting next to Radu, a former police officer.
Radu, 32, previously worked at a police station in central Bucharest, but left the force eight years ago to pursue a career working in video chat rooms, which attract men from all over the world and have become in a lucrative industry in Romania.
Naghel, 28, a US citizen, is described as a businesswoman and influencer who is believed to have been dating Tate for almost a year.
The group, along with Tate’s brother Tristan, have been in lockdown since Thursday after a court agreed to extend their detention by 30 days.
The brothers had been hosting their own New Year’s Eve party at a 48-room mansion they own in the mountain town of Comarnic before their sudden arrest.
Tate bought the impressive century-old property 80 miles north of Bucharest, complete with underground parking and a swimming pool, a year ago.
Gândul’s photographs of the luxury fleet appear to have been taken at the entrance to the same property.
Tate and his brother Tristan are alleged to have recruited women on social media platforms and convinced them to travel to their £600,000 haven by falsely professing love for them, before forcing them to perform on webcams.
According to the Romanian Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate, six alleged victims have been identified in connection with the investigation, one of whom is said to have been violently sexually assaulted in March.
Some of the suspects allegedly used the ‘loverboy’ method of trafficking, which involves a man luring a victim into a relationship and then sexually exploiting her, DIICOT said.
The victims were transported to and housed in buildings in Ilfov county, which surrounds Bucharest, where they were forced to make pornographic content, it is alleged.
Daria Gusa, the daughter of political analyst, journalist and businessman Cozmin Gusa, said she received an online message from the influencer when she was just 16 years old.
Miss Gusa, now 19, said she turned down his outright offer to date him and said she’s shocked it has taken so long for authorities to crack down on his operation, with two of his ‘angels’ also arrested in the raid. .
She told the Romanian site Reality Plus: ‘I had just created an Instagram account when I got a rather suggestive message from Andrew Tate basically asking me to go out with him.
So I asked my other colleagues, who had received similar messages, because it seemed strange to me that someone with millions of followers would contact me, who had 200.
‘Another colleague continued to chat with him and [he] He directly invited her to go out with him. Basically it was the “loverboy” method, he applied it to girls from Ilfov or Prahova, from areas as close as possible to her house.’
Miss Gusa said she doesn’t think she was targeted because of her influential father, but because she was a child in the area.
She said Tate bragged to friends in messages about his fancy cars, a private jet and the exclusive restaurants he would take them to.
Miss Gusa added: ‘I find it unbelievable that these people publicly brag about how much money they have, and especially how they got it, from girls who video chat for them, to pimps. Hopefully it’s not about drugs or sexual violence but it seems strange to me that they haven’t been detected earlier by the authorities.
It is very likely that many people are involved. These guys have trained their girls to film their clients, and of course, when it comes to intimate posing, it’s very easy to blackmail important people.
Despite outrage over the many allegations surrounding Tate in the past week, his Twitter following has skyrocketed. On his online platforms, the impactful influencer has gained nearly a million followers since his feud with climate activist Greta Thunberg made headlines.