Tate and his brother, Tristan, are being investigated in connection to a sex crime group accused of exploiting women for online content.
Controversial influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate has reportedly been detained in Romania in connection to a human-trafficking investigation.
According to a report from Antena 3, a CNN-affiliated Romanian news channel, Tate, 36, and his brother, Tristan, 34, were detained for 24 hours after authorities raided their luxury villa. The pair are being investigated in the probe of an organized crime group that authorities say exploited women for pornographic videos.
In a press release Thursday, the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) said that officers had carried out five different house raids. The Romanian agency reported that four suspects, two from Britain and two Romanians, are accused of forming the group. Andrew Tate and his brother were born in Chicago, Illinois, but both have British citizenship.
Tate’s arrest was announced a day after an exchange between Tate and 19-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg went viral on Twitter. Tate, who was only recently reinstated to the platform by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, started the conversation by tweeting at the young activist about his list of luxury cars.
« Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions, » Tate wrote.
« Yes, please do enlighten me, » Thunberg wrote back over a day later.
