Romanian court rules to keep Andrew Tate under house arrest as human trafficking case continues
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A court in Romania's capital on Tuesday ruled to extend by another 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
A court in Romania's capital on Tuesday ruled to extend by another 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
The decision at the Bucharest Tribunal comes a month after prosecutors formally indicted the 36-year-old social media star along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women in the same case. All four defendants -- who were arrested in late December near Bucharest and have denied the allegations against them -- will remain under house arrest for 30 more days.
Outside the court on Monday, Tate told journalists that "the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice in the end."
"My brother and I are extremely resilient people. In the end justice shall be served," he said. "We're feeling like things are going to work out perfectly in the end -- and until then we're going to follow the judicial process."
The Tate brothers, who are dual U.K.-U.S. citizens, will likely appeal against Tuesday's ruling. The Tates lost their last appeal on July 6 against a prior house arrest extension.
After spending three months in police detention in Bucharest, the Tate brothers won an appeal on March 31 to be moved to house arrest. In June, Romania's anti-organized crime agency known as DIICOT had requested that judges extend the house arrest measure after the agency filed its investigation.
Andrew Tate, who has been accused of peddling conspiracy theories online and has amassed 7.2 million Twitter followers, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy designed to silence him.
