Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have returned to Romania, where they’re facing human trafficking charges, following their trip to Florida after their travel ban was lifted.
The Tate brothers checked in at a police station near Romania’s capital on Monday, complying with judicial control requirements within the case wherein they’re charged with forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Andrew spoke with reporters outside the police station in Voluntari and said, “I’m a free one who has not been convicted of anything.”
He added he’ll “comply with all judicial authorities all over the place world wide because I’m completely innocent.”
The Tate brothers, who’re dual U.S.-British residents, remain under criminal investigation for the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor and money laundering.
Andrew also faces an extra charge of rape. They’ve each denied any wrongdoing.
The brothers remain under judicial control, which requires them to look before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned. They were resulting from check in with a surveillance officer on March 24.
“It doesn’t matter what you’re accused of, it matters what you might be proven guilty to have done in a good court of law,” Andrew said on Monday. “Accusations mean nothing. It doesn’t matter how again and again you repeat an accusation on the news. That’s garbage.”
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The brothers arrived in Romania on March 22, shortly before 1 a.m. local time, nearly one month after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted.
“Spending $185,000 dollars on a non-public jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper in Romania. Innocent men don’t run. THEY CLEAR THEIR NAME IN COURT,” Andrew posted on X to his over 10 million followers with a photograph of himself on a plane.
After arriving at their residence near the capital, Bucharest, Andrew told reporters they returned because “innocent men don’t run from anything.”
“We’ve come here to prove our innocence because we deserve our day in court,” he said.
“In any case we’ve been through, we truly deserve the day in court where it’s stated that we’ve done nothing fallacious and that we should always have never been in court in the primary place. We must always have never gone to jail. We must always have never had our assets seized. We must always have never had our names slandered,” he said. “Anyone who believed any of this garbage has a very low IQ.”
In late February, the siblings took a non-public jet from Băneasa airport in Bucharest for Fort Lauderdale, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear the influencer brothers are usually not welcome in his state.
DeSantis said his government had “no involvement” within the Tate brothers’ travel to the U.S. and that he learned of their return after reading about it “within the media.”
“Clearly, the federal government has jurisdiction. Whether or not they need to rebuff his entry into the US, I trust that, whether it’s Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem, they shall be taking a look at that,” DeSantis said during a press conference.
He said that Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, is “taking a look at what state hooks and jurisdiction we could have to give you the chance to cope with this.”
“But the truth is, isn’t any, Florida shouldn’t be a spot where you’re welcome with that sort of conduct within the air,” DeSantis added.
“And I don’t know the way it got here to this. We weren’t involved.”
During an appearance on March 3 on the PPD Podcast, Andrew said the governor was caving to media pressure. Tate said he has a U.S. passport and a right to go to his home country. He said he has broken no laws and that he has never even been tried, let alone convicted, of a criminal offense.
The Financial Times reported that Trump’s administration had expressed interest within the brothers’ legal case in Romania on the Munich Security Conference in February.
When asked concerning the Tates’ travels on Feb. 27, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters within the Oval Office, “I just know nothing about it. We’ll test it out. We’ll let you realize.”
Andrew, 38, and Tristan, 36, were arrested near Romania’s capital in late 2022, together with two Romanian women. Romanian prosecutors formally indicted all 4 last yr. In April, the Bucharest Tribunal ruled that a trial could start but didn’t set a date. All 4 deny the allegations.
Andrew, a former skilled kickboxer and self-described misogynist, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania haven’t any evidence against him and that there’s a political conspiracy to silence him.
— With files from The Associated Press
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