Andrew Tate will remain in Romanian prison as he loses another appeal

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan today lost their appeal against a Romanian court’s decision to deny them bail and keep them behind bars on sex trafficking charges.

Tate, 36, was arrested in Bucharest on December 29 along with Tristan and two Romanian women on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group to exploit the victims.

Earlier this month, all four appeared at a bail hearing that Tate hoped would see them released from prison and placed under house arrest after nearly three months behind bars. But that bail request was denied by a judge, and everyone appealed the decision.

And today a judge dismissed their appeal against the decision to deny them bail, Tate’s spokesman told MailOnline.

Last week, Tate and Tristan said they were “speechless” after a Romanian court ruled that the misogynistic influencer must remain in prison for an additional 30 days on sex trafficking charges.

A judge granted prosecutors a fourth 30-day extension to their arrest on March 22, meaning all four – the Tate brothers and Luana Radu, 32, and Georgina Naghel, 28 – will remain in custody until April 21 , Tate’s spokesman told MailOnline. None of the four have been formally charged.

Tate and Tristan slammed the judge’s decision last week, saying their image had been “irreparably damaged” by Romania’s criminal justice system, while insisting it “will take years to rebuild its reputation”.

Their spokesman told MailOnline at the time: “The court has decided to extend the preventive arrest of the Tate brothers. The news left us speechless.

“The interaction with the judge was extremely dynamic and for the first time the brothers were offered the opportunity to present all legal guarantees that they posed no risk of absconding,” they said.

“They are the first to want to shed light on this case. The considerable material damage they have suffered is nothing compared to the moral damage.

“Your image has been irreparably damaged and it will take years to rebuild reputation, trust and connection with the public.”

The brothers will appeal the decision to extend their detention by 30 days. That appeal will be heard on Friday.

Last month, Tate, who is accused of recruiting young women and forcing them to create pornographic content online, lost another appeal against a judge’s earlier decision to extend his sentence for a third time.

In a document explaining a previous decision to keep them in prison, the judge took into account the “particular dangerousness of the defendants” and their ability to identify victims “with increased vulnerability in search of better life opportunities”.

Prosecutors can still seek detention for a total of 180 days, meaning Tate will not be released from prison until at least June 27 if the judge further extends his sentence.

Prosecutors said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming they wanted a relationship or marriage.

The victims were then taken to properties on the outskirts of the capital, Bucharest, and forced to produce pornographic content for social media sites, which generated large financial gains, prosecutors said.

earlier this month, Tate denied he has cancer after it was confirmed he has a “dark spot on his lung”.

Tate’s Twitter account said the scar on his lung “is from an old battle” after the medical details were released last week.

“I don’t have cancer. My lungs contain exactly 0 smoke damage. In fact, I have a lung capacity of 8 liters and the vital signs of an Olympic athlete,” the update said.

“On my lung is nothing but a scar from an old battle. True warriors are marked both inside and out,” the post added, in a style that has become typical of Tate’s social media messages since his incarceration.

Tate and Tristan moved into a converted warehouse in Romania in 2017, which they manned with armed guards.

In their safehouse on the outskirts of Bucharest, the Tate brothers had a video chat studio where several women were found during an April 2022 police raid.

Romania’s anti-organized crime agency DIICOT said in a statement following the December arrests that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were allegedly subjected to “acts of physical violence and psychological coercion” and sexually assaulted by members of the alleged criminal group had been exploited.

The agency said the victims were lured with pretenses of love and were later intimidated, monitored and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into engaging in pornographic acts for the criminal group’s financial gain.

In January, Romanian authorities entered a compound owned by the Tate brothers near Bucharest and towed away a fleet of luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche. They said they seized an estimated $3.9 million worth of assets.

Prosecutors said if they can prove the owners of the cars made money from illegal activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to help cover the costs of the investigation and compensate victims. Tate also unsuccessfully appealed the seizure of assets.

Tate is also accused of raping a Moldovan in March 2022, whom he claims followed him from London, which he categorically denies.

In January, he told the Bucharest Court of Appeal that the alleged victim had voluntarily moved to Romania with him in November 2021.

Tate claimed she filed a rape allegation nearly six months later when he refused to give her money to buy a house and become a TikTok star.

“My case is not criminal, it is political. It’s not about justice or fairness. It’s about attacking my influence on the world,” read a post on his Twitter account on Sunday.

Tate’s views on women, masculinity and entrepreneurship, voiced on podcasts and shared online, became popular in 2022 when they were shared in short clips on social media.

He was eventually banned from various platforms for misogyny and hate speech.

Tate has repeatedly claimed Romanian prosecutors had no evidence and claimed her case was a “political” conspiracy to silence him.