EXCLUSIVE | How the Tate brothers’ „sex slaves” were tortured. They had no mercy on a young woman who had just been operated on
The woman who managed to escape from the building where the brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate’s videochat studio was operating and take refuge in the Voluntari police headquarters told the DIICOT prosecutors details on how Georgiana Naghel and former policewoman Luana Radu, assigned by the British to guard the „sex slaves”, tormented her.
The police officers who registered the victim’s complaint are also the subject of an internal investigation after the case was dropped without explanation.
The DIICOT prosecutors investigating the case in which the Tate brothers are accused of sexually exploiting young girls they allegedly recruited using the „loverboy” method, have attached to the file the statement of a young woman who claims she was assaulted by Georgiana Naghel and former policewoman Luana Radu when she decided to leave the videochat studio in Pipera.
Judicial sources told Gândul that, at the end of October 2021, C.D.P. informed Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu (editor’s note – trusted persons of the Tate brothers) that they intended to leave. The two women allegedly told him that this was not possible, and a scandal broke out in the building where the videochat studio operated.
In this regard, CDP confessed that she had recently had a breast augmentation operation and was not allowed to make certain movements because there was a risk of her surgery breaking.
Georgiana Naghel also knew this and, in order to inflict pain, would make her raise an arm above her head. What’s more, Naghel also allegedly grabbed her by the throat and pushed her under a desk.
All the while, the former policewoman told him that there was no point in notifying the authorities, as she had connections in both the police and the DIICOT.
Eventually, the victim managed to get out of the house and went directly to the Voluntari Police. Here, the two women brought her some of her things in a plastic bag and allegedly insulted her in front of the investigators.
File abandoned in a drawer
The woman filed a complaint, but, judicial sources say, the next day the police officer who registered her complaint called her to headquarters and allegedly tried to get her to drop the charges.
What’s more, as Luana Radu had warned her, by telling her that she would not solve anything with the police, the file was abandoned by the investigators and lay in a drawer until earlier this year, when the woman told the DIICOT prosecutors about the incident.
It was only after the lack of reaction of the Ilfov police officers reached the press that the management of the Ilfov IPJ ordered an inspection at the Voluntari City Police to determine whether the interests of the Tate brothers were protected by the law enforcement officers.
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, together with Georgiana Naghel and Luana Alexandra Radu, received their first preventive arrest warrants on the 30th of December 2022, after they had been detained by DIICOT prosecutors the day before, following searches of their villa in Pipera and their videochat studio.
On the 20th of January, at the request of the prosecutors, the Bucharest Court extended their preventive arrest warrants for another 30 days, from the 29th of January to the 27th of February. Although the decision is not final and has already been challenged by the Tate brothers’ lawyers, they remain in custody.
Prosecutors feared the Tate brothers might flee the country
DIICOT prosecutors succeeded in convincing the judge at the Bucharest Court to extend the Tate brothers’ arrest warrants, arguing that, left free, they „could exercise psychological control over the victims”.
Prosecutors also say that brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate could flee Romania if released from custody. In this context, DIICOT prosecutors made use of an earlier statement by one of the two eccentric millionaires, in which the latter indicated that he had accounts in 19 countries around the world and could fly using several passports.
„If I’m wrong and England wants me in jail, I can fly with a Nigerian or American or English or Polish or Estonian passport. I have bank accounts in 19 countries,” prosecutors quoted the statement of one of the Tate brothers in their report.
The arguments and evidence presented by the DIICOT prosecutors convinced the Bucharest Court to extend their preventive arrest warrants for another 30 days, and the judge considered that their release „would create real risks for the proper conduct of the criminal trial”.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are accused of „setting up an organized criminal group in 2021 with a view to committing the crime of trafficking in human beings on the territory of Romania and other countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom”.
„The victims were then transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county where, through acts of physical violence and psychological (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and the allegation of debts), were sexually exploited by members of the group by being forced to engage in pornographic acts with a view to producing and disseminating such material via social media platforms and by being forced to perform forced labor in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting in sums of money obtained as a result of users accessing the material”, according to the DIICOT.