EXCLUSIVE PHOTO | The first images of the Tate brothers before entering the courtroom at the Bucharest Court of Appeal. The book Andrew Tate was holding when he came out of the police van
GANDUL has the first images of Andrew and Tristan Tate, along with the other suspects in the human trafficking and rape case, 12 days after they were arrested. They are due too appear before the judges of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, where they will find out if they will be investigated in freedom or whether they will remain in custody. Andrew Tate is holding the Koran as he steps out of the police van after recently announcing his conversion to Islam.
Arrested on remand for 30 days and charged with setting up an organised criminal group, human trafficking and rape, brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate will learn on Tuesday at the Bucharest Court of Appeal (CAB) whether they will be released or remain in custody.
The Tate brothers and the other suspects in the DIICOT case were brought to the Bucharest Court of Appeal (CAB) in the early hours of Tuesday. As he stepped out of the police van, Andrew Tate was holding the Koran.
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What the Tate brothers look like after 12 days in custody
Dressed in black, the two brothers suspected of forming a veritable human trafficking network got out of the police van on Tuesday morning and will be taken to the courtroom at the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
While Tristan Tate seems cheerful and is smiling, Andrew Tate is serious, and it seems that prison life doesn’t suit him.
He relies on faith, for it was not by chance that he came to court with the Koran, after he converted to Islam at the end of 2021.
They hope they will be investigated in freedom
The Tate brothers, through their lawyers, and the two Romanian women have challenged the preventive arrest measure at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which will decide definitively whether to accept the DIICOT prosecutors’ proposal and leave the four defendants still under preventive arrest or whether they will be placed under house arrest or investigated under judicial control.
Eugen Vidineac, the lawyer of the Tate brothers, challenged the pre-trial detention, saying (more details HERE) that the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism have no evidence to support the charges made and that the whole case is based on the statement of one of the victims only, a woman from the Republic of Moldova.
The Tate brothers had their status changed from witnesses to suspects and from suspects to defendants on the evening of 29 December 2022, the date by which they had witness status, so they would be able to study the prosecution file. The Brits were detained when the DIICOT prosecutor notified them of their status as defendants and issued a detention order, said lawyer Eugen Vidineac.
You can watch the full extensive interview conducted exclusively by Gândul with lawyer Eugen Vidineac on YouTube.
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, suspected of human trafficking and rape
Andrew și Tristan Tate have been in custody following searches conducted by the DIICOT prosecutors at their Pipera villa and video chat studio. Georgiana Naghel and Luana Alexandra Radu were arrested alongside them.
The charges are establishment an organized criminal group, trafficking in human beings and rape, and the prosecutors have provided sufficient grounds for the Bucharest court judges to decide to arrest the Tate brothers and the two Romanian women for 30 days.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, as well as the two Romanian women, are now awaiting the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, where their lawyer has challenged their pre-trial detention.
Gândul has published the first exclusive images after the arrest of brothers Andrew and Tate, well as the two Romanian women, all of whom were taken handcuffed by the police van to the Central Detention Center.
They are accused that, in 2021, they „established an organised 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”.
„They were then transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county where they were physically abused and psychologically coerced (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 labour in order to obtain substantial financial benefits in the form of sums of money obtained as a result of access to the material by users”, according to the DIICOT.
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