British influencer Andrew Tate, his brother and two women have been charged in Romania with human trafficking and rape, six months after they were arrested.
The anti-organised crime unit (DIICOT) “ordered the prosecution” of the four defendants for offences including “creation of organised criminal group, human trafficking and rape”.
Romanian police arrested Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, and two Romanian women late last year. They were initially under pre-trial detention and then placed under house arrest at the end of March.
“It was confirmed that in early 2021, the four defendants formed an organised criminal group to practice human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom,” DIICOT said in a statement.
In addition to the human trafficking and rape charges, the four are also charged with “illegal access to a computer system, altering the integrity of computer data, encouraging assault or other form of violence.”
DIICOT says the brothers and their accomplices allegedly trafficked, recruited and exploited women, coercing them into “pornographic acts for the purpose of producing and disseminating such material” online.
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