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Four-time kickboxing world champion Tate, along with his brother Tristan, has been released from his detention in Romania after being arrested at the end of December
Andrew Tate and his brother detained by Romanian Police
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been released from prison in Romania after a successful appeal against their detention.
The kickboxing brothers were arrested at the end of December last year, and have been kept behind bars in Bucharest ever since despite multiple appeals. The controversial influencers failed to overturn a decision to deny them bail earlier this week but were today successful in appealing last week’s decision to extend their incarceration by another 30 days.
They are now being held on house arrest, along with two Romanian women who were also arrested in relation to the investigation.
As recently as this week, the Tates were held on their preventative arrest by a Romanian judge after six efforts to secure their release. But they appeared confident that this week they would be freed, with both brothers tweeting a cryptic message that simply read “Friday. InshaAllah.”
The Tates were arrested in December on suspicion of alleged human trafficking and forming an organised crime group and placed in temporary detention. They, along with two others, were removed from their plush Bucharest home and locked up under “preventative arrest”.
Andrew, 36, is a four-time world kickboxing champion, while Tristan, 34, won titles at European level during a less-decorated career in the ring. But their fame arrived away from the sport when they emerged as huge social media stars last summer, going viral for a string of controversial videos that led concerned viewers to brand them misogynist and dangerous.
Despite being locked up, both brothers have maintained a strong social media presence throughout this year, with Andrew’s page posting frequent messages to his 5.4million followers. Tristan, while less prolific, continues to share posts on a relatively regular basis to his 1million Twitter followers…. (Read more)
