Why are the Tate brothers heading to the US?

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his member Tristan are travelling to the US aft leaving Romania, wherever they look charges of rape, trafficking minors and wealth laundering, each of which they deny.

Questions stay astir wherefore they were allowed to question and what happens adjacent with their ineligible cases.

Andrew Tate, 38, and his member Tristan, 36, are dual US-UK citizens who assertion to person made millions from their societal media empire.

Their online output was arguable adjacent earlier their ineligible troubles, with the brace attracting predominant disapproval implicit violative statements astir women.

Police successful the UK person linked Andrew Tate to the "quite terrifying" radicalisation of boys and young men successful a 2024 study into unit against women and girls.

The brothers were archetypal arrested successful Romania successful 2022. They are facing separate, unrelated charges of rape and quality trafficking successful the UK. Both brothers besides contradict the charges against them successful the UK.

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The brothers had been nether a question prohibition successful Romania for much than 2 years portion they were nether investigation.

Speculation that they would permission Romania had been mounting up of their journey, aft the brace went quiescent connected societal media.

They near from a Bucharest airdrome astatine astir 03:00 section clip (05:00 GMT) connected a backstage pitchy bound for Florida, sources person told the BBC.

Prosecutors said the question prohibition had been lifted, and the pair's US passports had been returned to them, but investigations into their alleged crimes person not been dropped.

The Tates person a ample US pursuing and are fashionable figures connected the American right.

Earlier successful February, immoderate of Andrew Tate's alleged victims said they were "extremely concerned" by reports that US officials had asked for his question restrictions to beryllium relaxed.

It came aft US peculiar envoy Richard Grenell raised the Tate brothers with Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu astatine the Munich Security Conference.

Hurezeanu said helium had not considered Grenell's attack arsenic a "form of pressure". Grenell told the Financial Times his enactment for the brothers was evident.

The Tates person been a vocal supporters of US President Donald Trump, portion his adjacent adviser, Elon Musk, restored Andrew Tate's relationship connected X aft helium bought the societal media level successful 2022.

The cases against the Tate brothers successful Romania are present being rewritten by prosecutors, who allowed them to permission the state connected the information that they instrumentality - perchance arsenic aboriginal arsenic the extremity of March.

The pair's petition to permission the state was accepted, prosecutors said, but their petition for the charges against them to beryllium dropped was rejected.

The brothers look a fig of civic and transgression ineligible cases.

The brace were charged with quality trafficking and rape on with 2 Romanian pistillate suspects successful June 2023. They contradict the charges.

They look separate, unrelated charges of rape and quality trafficking successful the UK. Last year, a Romanian tribunal ruled they could beryllium extradited to the UK aft their lawsuit successful Romania concludes.

Separately, lawyers for 4 women who assertion they were assaulted by the Tates said they were bringing a civilian lawsuit against him astatine the High Court successful the UK for "damages for injuries they suffered arsenic a result".

A typical for the Tate brothers said successful effect that they "unequivocally contradict each allegations".

A abstracted civilian lawsuit successful the UK, which the brothers are contesting, accuses the brothers and a 3rd idiosyncratic of being serial taxation evaders.

Four women who allege they were sexually abused by Andrew Tate person said they are successful "disbelief and consciousness re-traumatised" by quality of him leaving Romania.

In a associated statement, the 4 said: "It is wide that helium volition present not look transgression prosecution for his alleged crimes successful Romania; helium volition usage it arsenic an accidental to harass further and intimidate witnesses and his accusers, and helium volition proceed to dispersed his violent, misogynistic doctrine astir the world."

They besides urged British authorities to "finally instrumentality action, bash thing astir this terrifying unfolding concern and guarantee helium faces justness successful the UK".

Matthew Jury, a lawyer representing the 4 alleged victims, told the BBC the Trump medication was "interfering successful owed process" successful Romania and the UK.