The Bucharest Court of Appeal issued a final decision in the case of the Tate brothers, on Wednesday, thus determining what will happen to the two in the next period.
The decision handed down by the court for Andrew and Tristan Tate
More precisely, the Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected as unfounded the appeals filed by the Tate brothers, but also by the other two persons in the file. Therefore, Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain under house arrest.
“Based on art. 425 ind. 1 paragraph 7 pet. 1 lit. b) Criminal Procedure Code with reference to art. 204 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, rejects, as unfounded, the appeals filed by the defendants Tate III Emory Andrew, Tate Tristian, Naghel Georgiana Manuela and Radu Alexandra Luana against the conclusion of May 19, 2023 of the judge of rights and freedoms of the Bucharest Court – Criminal Section I in file 15488/3/2023”, the Bucharest Court of Appeal announced on Wednesday.
Also, the court obliged the four to pay the sum of 300 lei, each, as legal expenses to the state in the appeal. Previously, on May 19, the Bucharest Court decided that the Tate brothers remain under house arrest. The measure was instituted on March 31.
The reason the Tate brothers were arrested
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested following searches that took place on December 29, 2022, in Bucharest and Ilfov County, at the homes owned by them, but also by their two accomplices. Later, at the beginning of January, seven other searches took place in Bucharest, Ilfov and Prahova in the case in which they are being investigated.
“In fact, the 4 suspected persons (two British citizens and two Romanian citizens) would have constituted an organized criminal group, for the purpose of recruitment, accommodation and exploitation, by forcing some women to create materials with pornographic content, intended for distribution on the website profiles. From these activities, he would have obtained important sums of money.
The injured persons would have been recruited by British citizens by misleading them about the intention to establish a marriage/cohabitation relationship and the existence of real feelings of love (the loverboy method).
They would have been later transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county where, by exercising acts of physical violence and mental coercion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and invoking alleged debts),
would have been sexually exploited by the members of the group by forcing them to perform pornographic manifestations in order to produce and disseminate through social media platforms material having such a character and by subjecting them to the execution of work, in a forced manner, in order to obtain important financial benefits , consisting of the sums of money obtained as a result of accessing the materials by the users”, stated the IGPR.
Six injured persons who were sexually exploited by the organized criminal group were identified.
