Tate brothers arrive in US after Romania prosecutors lift travel ban

British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate - who are facing proceedings successful Romania connected rape and trafficking charges - person arrived successful the US aft Romanian prosecutors lifted a two-year question ban.

Andrew, 38, and his member Tristan, 36, person powerfully denied the allegations against them. The 2 departed Bucharest connected a backstage pitchy aboriginal connected Thursday and arrived successful Florida hours later.

Romanian prosecutors stressed the lawsuit against them had not been dropped and that they stay "under judicial control"- meaning they person to regularly study to authorities and are expected to instrumentality to Romania.

However their exit has sparked concerns that prosecutors felt governmental unit from the Trump administration. One Romanian person said she was outraged.

The Tate brothers look charges of rape, trafficking minors and wealth laundering successful Romania.

In the US they besides look a civilian lawsuit from a pistillate who alleges the brothers coerced her into enactment work, and past defamed her aft she gave grounds to Romanian authorities.

The brothers besides look abstracted charges successful the UK of rape and quality trafficking. They contradict each the allegations against them.

On Thursday, they arrived astatine Fort Lauderdale successful Florida astir 11:00 section clip (16:00 GMT) and were seen disembarking the aircraft.

Their accomplishment successful the US, and the determination by Romanian prosecutors allowing them to permission the country, follows comments made by Trump medication figures earlier this month.

The Tates person regularly posted messages successful enactment of US President Donald Trump, and Tristan Tate has said his brother's relation successful persuading "millions of young men" to backmost him "cannot beryllium overlooked".

Romania's Foreign Minister has besides told Romanian TV that Trump's envoy for peculiar missions had raised the brothers during a speech astatine the Munich Security Conference successful Germany a fortnight ago.

Emil Hurezeanu said his treatment with Richard Grenell had lone been informal and helium did not see the attack "a signifier of pressure". Grenell told the Financial Times his enactment for the brothers was evident from his "publicly disposable tweets".

However, women who person brought intersexual maltreatment allegations against the Tate brothers said past week they were "extremely concerned" by reports that US officials had asked Romania to unbend question restrictions for the men.

Andrew Tate is simply a self-described misogynist who has attracted millions of followers online, contempt being antecedently banned from societal media platforms for expressing his views.

He and his member were archetypal arrested successful Romania successful December 2022, with Andrew accused of rape and quality trafficking and Tristan suspected of quality trafficking.

They some denied the charges and spent respective months nether location arrest. A twelvemonth later, successful August 2024, they faced caller allegations including enactment with a insignificant and trafficking underage persons, each of which they deny.

A erstwhile kickboxer who had appeared connected UK TV amusement Big Brother, Andrew had moved from the UK to Romania respective years ago. However constabulary successful Bedfordshire are inactive seeking his extradition connected abstracted and unrelated allegations of rape and quality trafficking, arsenic good arsenic taxation evasion.

In the UK, 4 British women person filed a civilian lawsuit against Andrew Tate successful the UK High Court, alleging that helium raped and coercively controlled them. Tate denies each the allegations against him.

Those plaintiffs said it was wide helium would not look transgression prosecution successful Romania and appealed to UK authorities to instrumentality action.

"We are successful disbelief and consciousness re-traumatised by the quality that the Romanian authorities person fixed into unit from the Trump medication to let Andrew Tate to question astir Europe and to the US," the women said successful a statement.

Elena Lasconi, who is moving for the Romanian presidency successful May's elections, six months aft they were controversially cancelled, has called for the contiguous resignation of the caput of Romania's organised transgression investigations directorate DIICOT, which made the determination to fto the brothers leave.

"I americium outraged!" she wrote connected societal media, "as a woman, a quality being and a Romanian." Lasconi said prosecutors should explicate publically whether their determination had travel arsenic a effect of outer pressure.

Prosecutors from DIICOT person emphasised that the judicial conditions for the brothers person not changed.

Any usurpation of those obligations made successful atrocious religion "may pb to the replacement of judicial power with a higher measurement of deprivation of liberty", it said successful a connection successful Romanian.

Following a palmy tribunal entreaty connected Wednesday, the brothers besides had aggregate assets returned to them which had primitively been seized by authorities- including six properties, six cars, and frozen slope accounts.

This comes aft tribunal limitations were "modified successful bid to let the brothers to question to the USA," the connection from the Tates' typical said.

The Tates are understood to beryllium required to instrumentality to Bucharest astatine the extremity of March to fulfill the prosecutors' terms, nevertheless it is excessively aboriginal to accidental whether they volition comply with them.

Romania is some a subordinate of the European Union and a cardinal Nato subordinate authorities connected the Western alliance's eastbound flank. It has an extradition pact with the US.

Senior Trump figures person besides had the authorities successful Bucharest successful their sights implicit the tribunal ruling that annulled past December's statesmanlike election. Romanian quality services said far-right campaigner Calin Georgescu had been supported by a flurry of TikTok accounts engineered by Russia.

Georgescu was indicted connected Wednesday for attempted "incitement to acts against the law order". He has denied immoderate wrongdoing and has antecedently called the predetermination annulment a "formalised coup d'etat". Prosecutors are inactive investigating the allegations of predetermination fraud.