Andrew and Tristan Tate are being visited in custody on Friday by the US consul general after the British millionaires asked for assistance from the United States of America (USA), not just Britain. Both brothers have dual citizenship – American-British.
UPDATE: The American consul left the central detention center of the Capital Police
The American consul left the Capital Police Central Detention Center at around 10:35 a.m. after spending about 30 minutes in the detention center.
As on arrival, he did not want to make any kind of comment related to the discussion he had with the British millionaires.
INITIAL NEWS
The American consul arrived on Friday, around 10:00, at the central detention center of the Capital Police, to have a discussion with the two Britons incarcerated on suspicion of human trafficking and rape.
The diplomat did not want to make any statement to the journalists outside the detention center.
It is not yet clear why the two British millionaires have sought consular assistance from both Britain and the United States.
The Tate brothers, in custody since December 29
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been in custody since December 29, following searches by DIICOT prosecutors at their Pipera villa and video chat studio. Together with them, Georgiana Naghel and former policewoman Luana Alexandra Radu were arrested.
The charges are 0f establishing an organised criminal group, trafficking in human beings and rape, and the prosecutors brought sufficient grounds in court for the judges of the Bucharest Tribunal to decide to arrest the Tate brothers and the two Romanian women for 30 days, and for the Bucharest Court of Appeal to uphold the preventive measure.
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