Andrew Tate will stay in Romanian prison as he loses another appeal

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have today lost their appeal against a Romanian court’s decision to deny bail and keep them behind bars on charges of sex trafficking.

Tate, 36, was arrested in Bucharest on December 29 along with Tristan and two Romanian women on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group to exploit victims.

Earlier this month, all four appeared at a bail hearing that Tate hoped would see him released from prison and placed under house arrest after nearly three months behind bars. But that request for bail was rejected by a judge and all four appealed the decision.

And today a judge rejected their appeal against the decision to deny them bail, the Tate spokesperson told MailOnline.

Last week, Tate and Tristan said they were “speechless” after a Romanian court ruled that the misogynistic influencer should spend an additional 30 days in jail on sex trafficking charges.

A judge granted prosecutors a fourth 30-day extension after their March 22 arrest, meaning all four — the Tate brothers and Luana Radu, 32, and Georgina Naghel, 28 — will remain in custody until April 21, the spokesperson said. from Tate to MailOnline. None of the four has yet been formally charged.

Tate and Tristan last week criticized the judge’s decision, saying their image has been “irreparably damaged” by Romania’s criminal justice system, while insisting it will “take years” to rebuild its reputation.

Their spokesperson told MailOnline at the time: ‘The court has decided to extend the preventive detention of the Tate brothers. We are speechless by the news.

“The interaction with the judge was extremely dynamic and for the first time the brothers had the opportunity to provide all legal guarantees that they do not pose a flight risk,” they said.

“They are the first to shed light on this matter. The substantial material damage they suffered is dwarfed by the moral.

“Their image has been irreparably damaged and it will take years to rebuild reputation, trust and bond with the general public.”

The brothers are appealing the decision to extend their detention by 30 days. That appeal will be heard on Friday.

Last month, Tate, accused of recruiting young women and forcing them to create pornographic content online, lost another appeal against a judge’s earlier decision to extend his arrest for a third time.

A document explaining a previous decision to keep them in prison said the judge took into account the “particular danger of the defendants” and their ability to identify victims “with heightened vulnerability, seeking better life chances” .

The prosecution can continue to request a total of 180 days of detention, which means that if the judge continues to extend his detention period, Tate will not be released from prison until at least June 27.

Prosecutors have said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage.

The victims were then taken to properties on the outskirts of the capital Bucharest and forced to produce pornographic content for social media sites that generated large financial profits, prosecutors said.

Earlier this month, Tate denied that he has cancer after confirming he had a “dark spot on his lung.”

Tate’s Twitter account said the scar on his lung is “from an old battle” after medical details were released last week.

‘I don’t have cancer. My lungs contain exactly 0 smoke damage. In fact, I have a lung capacity of 8 liters and the vital signs of an Olympic athlete,” the update read.

“There’s nothing but a scar on my lung from an old battle. True warriors are scarred both inside and out,” the post added in a style that has become typical of Tate’s social media posts since his detention.

Tate and Tristan moved to a converted warehouse in Romania in 2017, where they were staffed with armed guards.

In their safehouse on the outskirts of Bucharest, the Tate brothers ran a video chat studio where several women were found during a police raid in April 2022.

Romania’s anti-organized crime agency DIICOT said in a statement following the December arrests that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who allegedly suffered “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by members of the alleged crime group.

The agency said victims were lured with pretenses of love and later intimidated, placed under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while coerced into committing pornographic acts for the crime group’s financial gain.

In January, Romanian authorities descended on a property near Bucharest associated with the Tate brothers and towed away a fleet of luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche. They reported seizing assets estimated at $3.9 million.

Prosecutors have said that if they can prove that the owners of the cars made money from illegal activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to cover the costs of the investigation and compensate victims. Tate also unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.

Tate is also accused of the rape of a Moldovan woman, who he claims followed him from London in March 2022, which he categorically denies.

In January, he told the Bucharest Court of Appeal that the alleged victim had voluntarily moved to Romania with him in November 2021.

Tate claimed she filed a rape report almost six months later when he refused to give her money to buy a house and become a TikTok star.

‘My case is not criminal, but political. It’s not about justice or fairness. It’s about attacking my influence on the world,” read a message posted on his Twitter account on Sunday.

Tate’s views on women, masculinity and entrepreneurship, expressed in podcasts and shared online, became popular in 2022 when they were shared in short clips on social media.

He was eventually banned from several platforms for misogyny and hate speech.

Tate has repeatedly claimed that Romanian prosecutors have no evidence, claiming their case is a “political” conspiracy designed to silence him.