Andrew Tate has appeared at a prosecutors’ workplace for a second day as forensic searches of his confiscated telephones and laptops proceed.
The controversial influencer, 36, is suspected of being concerned in human trafficking and a part of an organised crime gang.
Tate’s brother Tristan and two Romanian ladies have additionally been detained in the identical case.
As the brothers arrived handcuffed collectively on Thursday morning on the Bucharest places of work of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (Diicot), Tristan Tate advised reporters: “What evidence is there? There is none.
“That ought to be the story. Please cowl that story. The police have fabricated the proof. There isn’t any proof. There isn’t any sufferer.”
Andrew Tate advised reporters as he left the places of work on Wednesday: “There is no evidence in my file because I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Diicot spokesperson Ramona Bolla stated it was taking time to undergo the “multiple devices” seized.
The brothers will stay in detention till late February after a choose on Friday granted a request to increase their detention by 30 days for a second time.
The former skilled kickboxer, a British-US citizen with practically 5 million Twitter followers, is believed to have lived in Romania since 2017.
He was beforehand banned from a number of social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech. But his following has elevated by not less than a number of hundred thousand on Twitter since he was arrested in late December.
After the arrests, Diicot stated it had recognized six human trafficking victims subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and sexually exploited by the members of a criminal offense gang.
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Diicot stated the victims have been lured with pretences of affection however later intimidated, stored below surveillance and subjected to different management ways whereas being coerced into participating in pornographic acts for appreciable monetary features.
Romanian authorities additionally seized property value greater than £3m together with a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche earlier in January.
Tate unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.
Source: information.sky.com”