The Bucharest Tribunal ruled that prosecutors’ case file against Tate met the legal criteria, but did not set a date for the trial to begin.
A court in Romania’s capital has ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Tate, 37, was arrested in December 2022 near Bucharest along with his brother Tristan Tate and two Romanian women.“The ruling issued by the preliminary chamber judge lacks legal basis and reasoning,” Eugen Vidineac, one of the brothers’ lawyers, said after the decision.Ahead of the court’s decision on Friday, the legal case had been discussed for months in the preliminary chamber stages, a process in which the defendants can challenge prosecutors’ evidence and case file.
“Although they did not receive the necessary attention in the preliminary hearing, we are confident that the appeal court judge panel will support us.”Andrew Tate, who has amassed 9.1 million followers on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him.
After the Tate brothers’ arrest, they were held for three months in police detention before being moved to house arrest.
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