Police in Romania sized 11 luxury vehicles valued at millions of dollars of social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan in connection with allegations that they imprisoned and abused half a dozen women.
Sports cars stolen from Tate’s property in Bucharest included the $2.9 million Bugatti Chiron that Tate used to taunt 20-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg shortly before her arrest.
The stable of seized cars also included two Ferraris and a Porsche, as well as a Rolls-Royce Wraith and an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate, Romanian outlets. spy news Y Slacker reported on Tuesday and Well-informed person confirmed Wednesday.
The seizure occurred after the Tate brothers and two Romanian women were arrested on December 2. 29 for allegedly holding six women as “virtual prisoners” and forcing them to have sex on camera for subscribers to Tate’s “Hustler University.”
Andrew, 36, a former world champion kickboxer and “Big Brother” contestant, flaunted his lavish lifestyle and misogynistic beliefs alongside pornographic content of women who were allegedly under “house arrest” on social media to millions of fans and subscribers who had admiringly nicknamed him the “king of toxic masculinity”.
British American media personality, who Women are said to be the “property” of men and moved to Romania amid a sexual assault investigation because he thought it would be easier to evade rape charges, was accused of being in an “organized criminal group” that allegedly raped a woman last year, the prosecutors said.
Co-defendants Georgiana Naghel, 28, and Luana Radu, 32, completed the alleged sex trafficking ring and were accused of helping to “coerce” and “control” the six women.
Naghel is rumored to be Andrew’s girlfriend, and Radu is a former Bucharest policeman turned porn star, according to the Times of London. women have been nicknamed “Tate’s Angels” by the Romanian and international media.
Authorities were holding Andrew’s impounded stable of expensive cars to “support the cost of the investigation” and the assets could be awarded as damages to abuse accusers if the suspects are found guilty, a spokeswoman for investigative agency DIICOT told Insider. from Romania, Ramona Bolla.
One of the vehicles in question, the $300,000 Rolls-Royce Wraith, was apparently bought in London on the whim of 34-year-old Andrew and Tristan over the summer. according to a YouTube clip where they documented the purchase and mocked “fucking losers” who couldn’t afford such an extravagant impulse purchase.
Many of the other seized vehicles were also worth six figures. A Vanquish S sells for just under $300,000 and a Porsche Carrera 4s starts at $130,000. Several more modest vehicles were also reportedly seized, including a Soviet-era BMW X6 and Lada 1500.
Tate’s arrest came after a Online exchange with Thunberg late last month. After Tate tagged her in a Twitter post. When he bragged about having 33 “huge emissions” cars, she implied he was overcompensating for having a small penis, prompting him to share a video showing off pizza boxes from a Romanian restaurant that promised they would not be recycled.
Tate and his alleged henchmen were arrested in a raid soon after, prompting the activist to post: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle pizza boxes.”
Bolla refuted reports that the Twitter spat had led authorities to the location of Tate, who last week said the coincidence was “fun, but no,” alluding to the fact that the suspect had been sharing tips on your location in Romania online for months.
The suspected human traffickers were initially held in jail for just 24 hours. A court-ordered extension of 30 days in prison was being appealed while police investigated.
Andrew’s Twitter account had been active since the day after the arrest, and the cigar-smoking playboy had tried to frame the investigation as a conspiracy, telling his followers: “The Matrix sent their agents.”
Tate had been banned from Twitter for claiming that rape victims “bear some responsibility” for their attacks. He was reinstated after Elon Musk bought the social network.
with pole wires
