Andrew Tate freed from house arrest after five months
Andrew Tate has been freed from house arrest in Romania despite facing accusations of rape and trafficking of minors.
The self-proclaimed ‘misogynist’, who first rose to fame after appearing on the British version of Big Brother, had been locked up in his mansion since August.
At the time, prosecutors started a second criminal investigation against him, his brother Tristan and four other suspects.
All face accusations of forming an organised criminal group, trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and laundering of money. The trio denied wrongdoing.
A court has now lifted the measure against the toxic celebrity, replacing it with judicial control as part of the second investigation.
Shortly after the news broke, he tweeted without further explanation: ‘300 million compensation from Romania and a Netflix deal.’
And half an hour after, Tate wrote: ‘The harder they try to make me go away… The bigger I become. The world is mine.’
Under the lighter preventative measure, known as judicial control, Tate is required to check in with police at regular intervals and is not allowed to contact other suspects or witnesses in his case. He cannot leave Romania.
The Tates – former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship – are the highest profile suspects facing trial for human trafficking in Romania.
The two brothers also have a British arrest warrant and will be extradited after Romanian trial proceedings finish, a court ruled in March.
A first criminal case against Tate failed in December when the Bucharest court of appeals ruled not to put him on trial but rather send the case back to prosecutors.
The decision, which cited flaws in the indictment, dealt a blow to the anti-organised crime prosecuting unit DIICOT.
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