Andrew Tate prosecution files reveal graphic claims of coercion ahead of trial

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Andrew Tate arrives astatine  the Bucharest Court building, June 2023Image source, Getty Images

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Andrew Tate arriving astatine tribunal successful Bucharest successful June

By Lucy Williamson

BBC News

Details of graphic grounds compiled by Romanian prosecutors, alleging that Andrew Tate coerced women into intersexual acts, person been seen by the BBC.

Warning: This nonfiction contains connection and details that immoderate readers whitethorn find disturbing

The lawsuit record summary, containing hundreds of pages of grounds and transcripts, includes an allegation of intersexual unit which is said to person near 1 pistillate with oculus and bosom injuries.

And successful what prosecutors accidental are transcribed audio messages, Mr Tate's member Tristan appears to accidental that helium volition "slave those bitches".

Both men are facing proceedings successful Romania for quality trafficking and forming an organised transgression radical with 2 different defendants.

Andrew Tate is besides facing a complaint of rape.

They contradict each the charges against them. Some of the messages whitethorn primitively person been written oregon recorded successful English, past translated into Romanian by prosecutors and re-translated backmost into English by the BBC.

The BBC cannot verify whether the messages person been accurately transcribed oregon whether they were sent by the defendants arsenic claimed, due to the fact that the archetypal grounds is not included successful the summary document.

The 300 pages of reported grounds and grounds seen by the BBC supply a uncommon glimpse wrong the pre-trial prosecution lawsuit against Andrew Tate, whose arguable views and online power person sparked warnings from teachers, constabulary and rights groups.

Included successful the summary is simply a reproduced substance connection successful which Mr Tate appears to assertion enactment of the big contented concern that prosecutors accidental was a quality trafficking ring.

Mental coercion

In June, Romania's Organised Crime Unit formally charged the Tate brothers, on with 2 Romanian women, with quality trafficking and forming an organised transgression group.

Attending tribunal for the indictment, Andrew Tate said they were "not the archetypal affluent men to beryllium unfairly attacked" and that helium looked guardant to being recovered innocent.

Earlier this summer, Romanian prosecutors said successful a connection that the Tate brothers had recruited their alleged victims by misleading them astir their romanticist intentions, earlier transporting the women to a location connected the outskirts of Bucharest - wherever they were sexually exploited by the group, and forced to nutrient pornographic contented done carnal unit and intelligence coercion.

The Tates' lawyers are expected to situation the prosecution grounds successful a pre-trial proceeding aboriginal this month, and immoderate of the worldly referred to successful the lawsuit record seen by the BBC could beryllium ruled inadmissible.

Even if the worldly is recovered to beryllium admissible, the defendants whitethorn situation it during trial.

The defendants whitethorn quality that they made these statements and contention their accuracy oregon context. They whitethorn besides contention whether they conscionable the required ineligible modular for immoderate offence being committed.

The record seen by the BBC includes grounds from what prosecutors accidental are respective women who lived successful a gathering adjacent the Tates' location connected the outskirts of Bucharest. The women allege that income from their online pornographic contented was controlled by the defendants, on with immoderate accounts and passwords.

'Slave those bitches'

Prosecutors accidental entree to the wealth made connected the OnlyFans tract was controlled by Georgiana Naghel, 1 of the Tates' 2 Romanian co-defendants.

She would wage the women successful the OnlyFans videos sums of wealth each period without revealing the full income they had earned, prosecutors allege.

On contented created for the TikTok platform, they accidental the defendants took 50% of the income - and sometimes more.

Witnesses besides assertion they were forced to nutrient circumstantial contented to a strict schedule, nether the menace of verbal and carnal abuse.

The lawsuit record refers to threats to "break your teeth" oregon "end up successful the morgue" successful transcribed substance messages, said to beryllium from Ms Naghel.

She is besides facing a complaint of physically assaulting 1 unfortunate - which she denies.

Fines of astir 10% were imposed by the defendants connected the women performing online for adjacent tiny infractions - specified arsenic staying excessively agelong connected a break, crying portion unrecorded online, oregon wiping their chemoreceptor portion live, 1 witnesser says.

This seemingly resulted successful 1 of the women owing astir €4,000 (£3,412) successful debts.

A lawyer for the 2 pistillate defendants said they vehemently denied the allegations which were not supported by immoderate evidence, and were waiting for the tribunal to determine their innocence.

The prosecutors' record besides contains what is claimed to beryllium transcriptions of audio messages from 2020 - successful which Tristan Tate appears to accidental helium doesn't privation the women connected sites similar PornHub and OnlyFans to person entree to their accounts:

"I don't privation them to person the passwords, I don't privation them to person anything."

"I don't privation to archer them that they person OnlyFans, I privation that wealth to beryllium utilized by maine and you, screw them…"

Another portion of the transcript reads:

"Mainly I'm going to enslaved these bitches […] I'm going to marque them enactment adjacent much hours and hours and hours.. I enactment these bitches similar slaves. […] SLAVE work. Minimum 10 oregon 12 hours a day."

The Tate brothers, and immoderate of the women moving for them, antecedently told investigators that the allegations are the effect of jealousy.

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Watch: Andrew Tate challenged connected misogyny successful combative BBC interview

And 2 of the women, classed arsenic victims by prosecutors, accidental they did not stock their income with anyone. Both women person publically emphasised their adjacent idiosyncratic ties to the men, and enactment for them.

Prosecutors volition besides question to physique up a representation of controlling behaviour and dense restrictions - mostly done witnesser grounds and messages which they assertion were exchanged betwixt the assorted parties.

This includes an alleged prohibition connected recently arrived women leaving the location without permission, and needing to beryllium accompanied by 1 of the Tates' trusted associates.

They allege that aft recruitment, women were placed nether the supervision of the 2 pistillate defendants, Ms Naghel and Luana Radu.

The prosecutors item alleged substance exchanges betwixt Tristan Tate and Ms Naghel astir the absorption of the business.

But significantly, the files seen by the BBC incorporate a transcript of what is said to beryllium a substance connection from 1 alleged unfortunate to Andrew Tate past year, successful which she asks if he's "the 1 moving the miss business/OnlyFans and TikTok".

"Tristan and G are," Andrew appears to respond.

We asked the Tates for a effect to these claims. A spokeswoman said successful a connection that they vehemently denied the superior allegations against them. She accused the BBC of a deficiency of impartiality, saying determination was "substantial grounds pointing to their innocence", without giving immoderate detail, oregon addressing the circumstantial allegations raised.

'I can't bash it without drinking'

In different transcribed messages that prosecutors accidental took spot betwixt this alleged unfortunate and Andrew Tate implicit respective weeks, Mr Tate appears to premix speech of emotion and matrimony with what look to beryllium orders, threats, references to rape, oregon insults specified arsenic "bitch" oregon "whore".

According to the file, the alleged unfortunate appears to inquire him not to usage those terms.

In effect to a request for radical sex, the record says, she tells Andrew Tate, "I volition not person enactment with girls. I'm not going to bash this." And then, "Baby, I gotta portion for this. I can't bash it without drinking."

Mr Tate is alleged to person responded, "Don't beryllium boring [...] I privation to spot that you taxable to maine [...] Shut up you whore, you volition bash arsenic I say."

This is not the lone allegation of abuse. The lawsuit record summary besides contains elaborate witnesser accounts of Mr Tate's alleged unit towards women.

One alleged rape unfortunate says that, during 1 incident, helium told her to instrumentality disconnected her apparel portion keeping her shoes on, past "slapped her crossed the face".

She says she was incapable to cull Mr Tate due to the fact that helium would clasp her caput during sex, telling her helium nary longer wanted to person antagonistic messages from her, and threatening to get her large and fastener her successful a house.

According to the prosecution case, the alleged unfortunate "was crying and frightened due to the fact that she thought [Andrew Tate] was susceptible of anything".

The 2 individuals were reportedly unsocial successful the country astatine the time, the record says, but prosecutors are seeking to spot this grounds successful the discourse of the defendant's reported wider behaviour and history.

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Silvia Tabusca is an adept successful quality trafficking cases

Another pistillate told investigators that Andrew Tate's unit during enactment was his mode of "venting frustration" erstwhile she didn't bash what helium told her to do.

Silvia Tabusca - an adept successful quality trafficking cases - told the BBC that, successful bid to beryllium their case, prosecutors would request to amusement that the defendants misled their alleged victims astir their information for the relationship. Even if the women themselves consented, she said, trafficking could inactive instrumentality place.

In a BBC interrogation earlier this year, Andrew Tate powerfully denied exploiting oregon manipulating immoderate women, saying that helium had "never wounded anybody" and that the lawsuit against him was "completely and utterly fabricated".

He has besides said repeatedly that the media and others instrumentality selected comments of his retired of discourse and enactment them unneurotic successful a mode that doesn't bespeak reality.

Rare cars, jewellery and property

The record besides refers to fiscal transfers, including £4m allegedly transferred by Andrew Tate into an online slope account, nether the heading "Rev Only Fans". The BBC has not seen details of the root of that income.

In their report, prosecutors allege that the Tate brothers bash not look to person income "from lawful activities", but that from 2018 onwards they acquired "numerous properties", "15 of the rarest and astir costly cars", estimated to beryllium worthy much than £3m, arsenic good arsenic jewellery and $400,000 successful cryptocurrency.

Subscriptions to their online groups, the War Room and Hustler's University, look to bring the brothers astir $5m a period successful rank fees, prosecutors say.

Romania is preparing to effort this lawsuit successful the glare of an planetary spotlight. Its Organised Crime Unit confirmed successful a connection earlier this twelvemonth that it was continuing to analyse imaginable crimes of trafficking successful minors and money-laundering connected to this case. As yet, nary suspects person been formally identified.

The proceedings itself could instrumentality years to scope a verdict.

Prosecutors accidental Andrew Tate's video explanations of however to recruit, power and exploit women lucifer the grounds they present.

But supporters praise his subject and fiscal success.

The online mentation of Andrew Tate has already divided the satellite into prosecution and defence. But successful the ineligible process that's astir to statesman successful Bucharest, it's his real-life actions connected trial.

Additional reporting by Kathy Long

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