US officials raised the Tates' case with Bucharest in a phone call last week before following up with a meeting between Trump's envoy Richard Grenell and the Romanian foreign minister, sources said.
Officials from the Trump administration have pressured Romania n authorities to lift travel restrictions on self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan as they face criminal charges in the country.
The brothers' movements have been restricted since their 2022 arrest - spending three months in police detention, before being put under house arrest and then being prevented from leaving the country. Andrew Tate has labelled Trump 'the best president in history' and declared ahead of his election victory that he would be moving back the the US
Tristan previously boasted about the brothers' role in the US election, claiming back in November that 'millions of young men in Europe and the USA have a healthy rightwing approach to politics that they would NOT have if Andrew Tate had never appeared on their phone screens'. Following Trump's win, Tate posted: 'THE PATRIARCHY IS BACK,' before reiterating his belief that women should not be allowed to vote.
Romanian law states the trafficking of adults carries a lengthy prison sentence of up to a decade, as does rape.
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