EXCLUSIVE | The fabulous collection of watches built from the mansion of brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate. One watch costs as much as a studio apartment
The watch collection of brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, seized by DIICOT prosecutors from their villa in Pipera, is worth over 300,000 euros, according to judicial sources. These are watches decorated with precious stones and gold, costing between €30,000 and €40,000 on average.
The National Agency for the Administration of Seized Assets (ANABI) announced at the end of last week that it had taken into administration 29 luxury cars and watches, as well as several sums of money, in lei, euros, pounds and dollars, seized by DIICOT prosecutors from the Tate brothers. According to ANABI, the total value of these goods was estimated at around €3.6 million.
Judicial sources told Gândul that prosecutors have seized 14 luxury watches produced by Patek Philippe, Cartier, Hublot, Rolex, Breitling, Audemars Piquet, Ulysse Nardin and Akribos.
To this end, ANABI has published on its website a photo showing several of the British watches. These include a Patek Philippe Nautilus Chronograph Date Full Gold, worth around €30,000, and an Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronometer, worth around €40,000.
Tate brothers’ multi-million-euro cars seized
Andrew and Tristan Tate were also left without 15 luxury cars found by prosecutors in the courtyard of their Pipera villa.
Among the cars seized by DIICOT prosecutors are an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate worth €250,000, a Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge worth €360,000, a BMW X6 M worth €30,000 and a Lada 1500 worth around €10,000. Also seized are a Porsche Carrera 4S 911 992, which has a market value of €120,000, and a McLaren.
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate’s collection of luxury cars, which they’ve been showing off online for years, is worth millions of euros.
Some of the cars at the Tate brothers’ Pipera home were seized by investigators on 14 January. The seized cars will be stored during the investigation and trial at ANABI.
Investigators on the trail of the Tate brothers from April 2022
The police and prosecutors made the first searches in this case on April 11, 2022, when several computers, laptops and equipment were seized from the Pipera home of the Tate brothers.
On the same day, other locations in Ilfov county were also targeted, and the searches took place after the US Embassy in Bucharest had notified the police that a young woman with American citizenship was being held by force in a villa owned by the two Britons. She was lured into Romania by the famous „loverboy” method, used by many human traffickers, and then forced to do videochat.
On 29 December 2022, DIICOT prosecutors again raided the Tate brothers’ villa in Pipera and the videochat studio they own, and several items of evidence were seized from the buildings searched at the time, including computers used in the videochat business, laptops with databases and money.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, together with Georgiana Naghel and former policewoman Luana Alexandra Radu, have been in the Capital Police Detention Centre since 29 December 2022, when prosecutors detained them following searches, then the Bucharest Court issued preventive arrest warrants on their behalf for 30 days. They appealed the decision at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which ruled that all four remain in pre-trial detention.
They are accused that, in 2021, they „set up an organized criminal group with a view to committing the crime of trafficking in human beings in Romania and other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom”.
„ The victims were then transported and housed in buildings located in Ilfov county where they were physically abused and psychologically coerced (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and the allegation of debts), they were sexually exploited by members of the group by being forced to engage in pornographic acts with a view to producing and disseminating material of such a nature via social media platforms and by being forced to perform forced labor in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting of sums of money obtained as a result of users accessing the material”, according to the DIICOT.
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