EXCLUSIVE | The investigation into the Tate brothers’ case was expanded to four other countries. Their favorite car, a 5.4 million euro Bugatti, brought from Dubai at the request of the investigators
Representatives of the National Agency for the Administration of Seized Assets (ANABI) have sent a request to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates to seize a Bugatti car belonging to brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, worth approximately €5.4 million, and send it to Romania. At the same time, ANABI representatives are also searching other countries for valuables belonging to the British millionaires arrested in Romania since the end of last year.
After lifting with the platforms all the cars in the yard of the Pipera villa where Andrew and Tristan Tate lived, including an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate, worth 250,000 euros, a Rolls Royce Wraith Black Badge, which costs 360,000 euros, a BMW X6 M, worth 30,000 euros, a Porsche Carrera 4S 911 992, which has a market value of 120,000 euros, but also a vintage Lada valued at 10,000 euros, the ANABI representatives extended their search to other countries.
According to judicial sources, ANABI has sent a request to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates to locate and impound a Bugatti car, which appears to be owned by the Tate brothers.
The car is to be sent to Romania and deposited, under seal, in the ANABI warehouse, along with the rest of Andrew and Tristan Tate’s possessions, which, in addition to cars and real estate, are currently left without their impressive collection of luxury watches.
At the same time, according to some judicial sources, ANABI also checks what assets Andrew and Tristan Tate own in the USA, Great Britain, and Ireland, in Dublin.
If convicted, the Tate brothers’ assets will be auctioned off
If found guilty, the court will also determine what damage Andrew and Tristan Tate have caused, which will then be recovered from their accounts and from the proceeds of the sale of the seized properties and luxury cars.
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been in custody since the 29th of December 2022, after DIICOT the prosecutors raided their villa in Pipera and their videochat studio. Along with them, two Romanian women were arrested, one of them a former policewoman at Police Station 7 in Bucharest.
They are accused that, in 2021, they ” established an organized criminal group 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 coertion (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 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.
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