The Bucharest Court of Appeals annulled on Tuesday the decision of the Bucharest Court of July 5 by which the brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate received permission to leave the territory of Romania.
"It admits the appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice - DIICOT against the conclusion of 07.05.2024 of the judge of the preliminary chamber of the Bucharest Court. Partially cancels the contested conclusion and, rejudging: rejects as unfounded the request of the defendants Tate III Emory Andrew and Tate Tristan concerning the replacement of the obligation not to leave the territory of Romania with the obligation not to leave the territorial limit of the European Union, except with the prior approval of the judge of the preliminary chamber or of the court. Final", reads the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeals.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are being tried in Romania, under judicial control, for human trafficking and rape, in a case handled by DIICOT.
The Tate brothers, with dual citizenship, British and American, and two young accomplices (Alexandra-Luana Radu and Georgiana Manuela Naghel) were sent to court on June 20, 2023, being accused of constituting an organized criminal group, for the purpose of extortion, accommodation and exploitation, by forcing some women to create materials with pornographic content, intended for distribution for a fee on relevant websites. From these activities, the defendants would have obtained important sums of money.
The offenses charged against them are the creation of an organized criminal group, continuous human trafficking, continuous rape (two material acts), illegal access to the computer system, altering the integrity of computer data, hitting or other violence and inciting it crime.
According to DIICOT, the crime of human trafficking would have been committed both on the territory of Romania, but also in the United States of America and Great Britain.
The investigators claim that the Tate brothers recruited young women under the pretext of starting a love relationship, after which they took them to a house in Ilfov county, where they were forced to produce video clips, which were posted on websites for adults.
The two brothers misled the young women that they would like a marriage/cohabitation relationship and that they would have real feelings of love for them (the 'loverboy' method).
The women were allegedly later transported and sheltered in a building in Ilfov county, where, through acts of physical violence and mental coercion (intimidation, constant surveillance, control and the invoking of alleged debts), they were sexually exploited by the group members by forcing to pornographic manifestations with a view to the production and dissemination, through social media platforms, of material having such a character and by submitting to the execution of a work, in a forced manner, in order to obtain important financial benefits consisting in the sums of money obtained as a result of accessing materials by users.
The victims told the investigators that a video chat studio was set up in the villa in Ilfov county, and they were met by armed guards upon arrival. At the same time, they would have been forced to get tattoos with the message "owned by Tate".
The investigators identified seven victims in this case, but only three were civil parties in the case.
Regarding the crime of rape, the investigators say that, in March 2022, one of the girls would have been forced by one of the Tate brothers, through the exercise of physical violence and psychological pressure, to repeatedly have sexual relations with him.
Also, regarding the crimes of instigating hitting or other violence, respectively hitting or other violence, the investigators say that, in October 2021, in order to "punish" one of the girls who refused to continue making pornographic materials and requested to be allowed to leave the building located in Ilfov county, at the instigation of one of the Tate brothers, one of the accomplices would have exercised acts of violence on the injured person.
During the investigation, DIICOT prosecutors seized several assets owned by the Tate brothers in Romania: 15 plots of land and buildings located within the counties of Ilfov, Prahova and Brasov; 15 luxury cars; 14 luxury watches; two ingots and a medal; shares in four companies; sums of money and cryptocurrencies.
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