Andrew Tate boasts of his freedom with video of first night out following house arrest – featuring a meal out with friends, while showing off his flash wristwatch and supercars
- Tate brothers won appeal for freedom on Friday after months of house arrest
- They are now allowed to travel in parts of Romania but cannot leave the country
Andrew Tate has shared a video purporting to show his escapades on the first night following his release from house arrest in Romania last week.
The controversial influencer and kickboxer, 36, along with his brother Tristan, 35, on Friday won an appeal to leave their home after spending months under house arrest amid an investigation into sex trafficking claims.
The one-and-a-half-minute-long clip showed the brothers dining at a lavish open-air restaurant with a group of men, toasting to one another’s freedom before pulling away in a purple McLaren and silver Porsche.
The McLaren was seen being delivered to Tate’s compound on the outskirts of Bucharest last week shortly after his release from house arrest, when he told reporters outside his home that he would be ‘absolutely exonerated’ over rape and human trafficking charges.
Police sources estimated that Tate’s car collection was worth around a total of £6million when they seized the vehicles earlier this year. At the time, Romanian officials were pictured towing several cars away including a Rolls Royce, a Porsche, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and an Aston Martin.
Andrew (L) and Tristan (R) Tate are seen heading to a lavish open air restaurant the night after being released from house arrest in Romania
Tate (left) is seen sitting at a table alongside his brother and several henchmen
Tate is seen leaving the restaurant in a silver Porsche GT4RS
Tristan Tate pulled away in a purple McLaren that was delivered to the brother’s compound last week
Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan and two Romanian women were released from house arrest last week. Tate is pictured here after the ruling
Andrew Tate beams as a purple McLaren is delivered to him at his home in Romania after he was released from house arrest
Tate, who was arrested on December 29 in Bucharest and has denied all the allegations against him, had previously lost a series of appeals against his house arrest.
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Following their release from house arrest, Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women are now under judicial control, a lighter restrictive measure.
A judge has 60 days to review evidence in the case files before it goes to trial, which itself could take several years.
Speaking after Friday’s verdict, Tate said: ‘Everybody who was pushing these lies and reporting things on repeat without any substantial evidence are going to have to analyse within themselves why they decide to try and destroy people’s lives purely for views.
The self-professed misogynist continued: ‘I’ve done nothing wrong, God knows I’ve done nothing wrong, in my heart I know I’ve done nothing wrong. I think the people at home with a functioning brain understand we’ve done nothing wrong.’
Prosecutors alleged last month that as many as seven female victims had been brought to Romania where they were intimidated, surveilled and forced to take part in pornography. One defendant raped an alleged victim twice in March last year according to a statement by Romanian prosecutors.
Victims are afforded automatic anonymity as alleged victims of sexual violence. One British woman, referred to as Sophie to protect her identity, claimed Andrew slapped and strangled her to the point of passing out ‘during rough sex’.
A spokesman for Andrew and Tristan Tate said Friday: ‘The authorities are yet to decide on the frequency of the control checks with the Romanian police.
Vehicles including a Rolls-Royce, BMW and Mercedes-Benz were seen being taken away in January
People are seen taking away Andrew Tate’s luxury car collection in Romania on January 14, including a 2019 Aston Martin Vanquish S (middle)
The brothers are under strict instructions not to contact the two Romanian associates, witnesses or alleged victims. Pictured leaving court on August 1, 2023
‘We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Romanian judicial system for their fair consideration. This positive outcome gives us confidence that more favourable developments are on the horizon and the truth is beginning to prevail.
‘We also want to thank all the supporters who have shown great resilience and patience during this time.’
Earlier last week the brothers were appealing against a court decision made last month to keep them under house arrest for a further 30 days.
Their appearance at the Court of Appeal in Bucharest came after the influencer was formally charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women in June. Tristan and two Romanian women were charged with human trafficking.
The four will not be able to leave Romania or travel to some parts of the country but can leave home and travel within Bucharest and Ilfov.
Upon his release Tate, 36, tweeted: ‘After 10 months. 3 in jail, 7 at home. After 15million euro of asset seizures. After an inditement based on nothing.
‘The file was passed to a Judge who has ruled it weak and circumstantial. I have been released from house arrest but must remain within Romania. Now. To the Mosque. Alhamdulillah.’
The Bucharest Court of Appeals said in a written ruling that it ‘replaces the house arrest measure with that of judicial control for a period of 60 days from August 4 until October 2.’
Leaked messages have demonstrated how Andrew Tate (left with his brother, Tristan) allegedly coerced women into doing sex work for him, according to a report
Former police officer Luana Radu (left) and Georgiana Naghel (right) are suspected of assisting the Tate brothers
After spending three months in police detention in Bucharest, the Tate brothers won an appeal on March 31 to be moved to house arrest. They are now able to move freely within parts of the country.
The brothers are banned from contacting the two Romanian associates who are also charged with trafficking as well as witnesses, alleged victims and their families. Breaking these rules could lead to further house arrest or detention.
In June, Romania’s anti-organised crime agency known as DIICOT had requested that judges extend the house arrest measure after it filed its investigation.
Pictured: A selection of messages purportedly sent by Andrew Tate to his ‘War Room’ group chat and to women, seen in screenshots also posted to the group chat
Tate, who has been accused of peddling conspiracy theories online and has amassed 7.2million Twitter followers, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors have no evidence against him and that there is a political plot designed to silence him.
DIICOT alleges that Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women – Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel – formed a criminal group in 2021 ‘in order to commit the crime of human trafficking’ in Romania, as well as in the United States and Britain.
There are seven female victims in the case, DIICOT said, who were lured with false pretences of love and transported to Romania, where the gang sexually exploited them and subjected them to physical violence.
One defendant is accused of raping a woman twice in March 2022, according to the agency. The women were allegedly controlled by ‘intimidation, constant surveillance’ and claims they were in debt, prosecutors said.
Last week, it was reported that leaked messages have demonstrated how Tate coerced women into doing sex work for him.
When the influencer was arrested in Romania in December, authorities accused him of using the ‘loverboy’ method to lure women to his compound in Bucharest under the guise of having a relationship, before forcing them to do sex work.
According to Rolling Stone, citing screenshots of purported messages from the ‘War Room’ (Tate’s group chat with his followers) and other texts in 2021, the influencer described women as ‘targets’ and ‘assets’ and spoke of isolating and manipulating them.
In one purported message, he described how he isolated one woman until she ‘lost her support networks at home’ and kept her at the compound in Bucharest.
‘The real goal is for her to agree to never go anywhere without me. Not even her home town. I need her working,’ he wrote, according to screenshots.
Tate also appeared to seek help from his associates to force one woman to post explicit content on OnlyFans, an internet content subscription platform used mostly by sex workers.
In the message, Tate tells followers he’ll be ‘making the play tonight’.
‘Since she moved [to Bucharest] she’s been fed. But nothing else,’ he wrote.
‘She’s broke. And she can’t go home. And she can’t leave the house. Man, I sound almost evil,’ he added according to the leaked messages.
A spokesman for the influencer told MailOnline that ‘a significant portion of retweets and shares of these screenshots across social media platforms originate from recently created and unverified accounts’ and suggested they could have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
‘The rise of AI and social media as a news source has opened up the opportunity to anonymously present potentially fabricated, or manipulated evidence, while bypassing the burden of responsibility and avoiding consequences,’ they said.
‘These realities raise concerns about the potential for a deliberate and targeted effort to sway public opinion and undermine the credibility of the evidence presented.’
On screenshots of messages purported to be between Tate and one of the victims, the spokesman said she ‘has publicly and categorically refuted any mistreatment from the brothers.’
However, despite her pleas, the prosecution remains reluctant to remove her name from the alleged victim list.
‘While all statements from the alleged victims, incriminating the brothers, have been unquestioningly accepted by the public, the evidence supporting the brothers’ innocence has not been given the same fair treatment,’ they added.
Tate was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing hate speech and misogynistic comments, including that women should ‘bear responsibility’ for getting sexually assaulted.
Leading domestic abuse charities have warned such content is extremely misogynistic and has the potential to radicalise men and young boys.
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