Social influencer Andrew Tatehis brother Tristan and new information has been revealed about the legal proceedings concerning two women who cooperated with them.
In June, the four were charged with human trafficking and forming an organized criminal group. Andrew Tate has also been charged with one count of rape.
British broadcasting company BBC has familiarized himself with the prosecutor’s summary of witness statements and evidence. The summary is more than 300 pages long. In the documents, the defendants are alleged to have forced several women into sexual acts.
The prosecutor’s summary also includes a copy of a message allegedly sent by Andrew Tate, in which he says that he runs a company operating in the adult entertainment industry, which the prosecutor has defined as a human trafficking ring.
The charges brought against the Tate brothers in Bucharest are related to the Webcam company they founded, where they allegedly recruited women to appear with unsecured promises of relationships and marriages.
In the webcam business, female persons often present themselves to paying viewers via web cam in a sexually tinged or direct sexual manner.
Last November, Tristan Tate revealed For The Daily Mirror, that the Webcam company founded by the brothers is a pure scam. However, according to him, there is nothing illegal in the operation.
According to Tristan, the company has 75 women on its payroll who try to trick vulnerable and lonely men using the Webcam service into donating money to them.
According to the prosecutor, the defendants forced the recruited women to produce pornographic content for their channels by physical or mental violence, or by threatening them.
Tate’s brothers and other defendants have denied all charges. During the indictment, Andrew Tate noted that they are not the first wealthy men to face frivolous charges.
The defendants and some of the women hired by their company have previously stated that the charges stemmed from jealousy.
The defendants were responsible for distributing the rewards
The summary includes testimonies from women who lived near the Tate brothers on the outskirts of Bucharest. According to the women, the defendants controlled the money they earned, as well as the accounts and passwords of the website Onlyfans, which served as a platform for publishing pornographic content.
According to the prosecutor, he controlled the accounts and money Georgiana Naghel – woman, who is one of the women accused along with Tate’s brothers. Naghel allegedly paid the women a salary every month, without disclosing how much money they had brought in for the company in total.
The defendants also allegedly kept at least half of the profits from the content produced on Tiktok. It is common for those who produce content for the Onlyfans site to create accounts on other popular social media platforms as well, in order to market themselves and direct traffic to paid content.
According to court documents seen by the BBC, the women who worked for the defendants lived under strict restrictions. New women who moved into Tate’s property were forbidden to leave the house without permission or without a supervisor appointed by the accused.
According to the prosecutor, the women’s fees could be deducted by about 10 percent if they took too long breaks or cried during the live stream.
One of the alleged victims says in his statement that he ended up owing the defendants around 4,000 euros due to minor “infractions”.
The prosecutor’s documents contain transcriptions of audio messages allegedly sent by Tristan Tate, in which he denies sex workers access to his Onlyfans and Pornhub accounts.
– I don’t want them to have passwords. I don’t want them to have anything at all, Tristan allegedly said.
In other documents seen by the BBC, Tristan is reported to have said:
– I don’t want to tell them that they have Onlyfans accounts. I want the money to stay with us. They can ski up to the fir tree.
– I want to enslave these bitches. […] I’m going to make them work even harder and treat them like slaves. […] Doing slave labor, at least 10 or 12 hours a day.
According to the prosecutor’s report, the Tate brothers had no legal income at all for a long time. Still, since 2018, men have acquired valuable real estate and sports cars for more than 3.5 million euros, expensive jewelry and 400,000 euros for cryptocurrency.
According to the prosecutor, The War Room networking service and Hustler’s University training website, which was later established by Tate, generates about five million euros per month for the brothers.
Andrew Tate sells his own success story to his audience
Tate is a former kickboxer who in recent years has made a career as a social media influencer and self-help coach selling “strong manhood”. Tate has been in public with his speeches demeaning women and glorifying violence.
Most of the content produced by Tate is aimed at young boys and men with low self-esteem. Tate’s questionable views and great influence have caused concern worldwide among schools, public authorities and human rights organizations.
Last year, he was permanently banned from Tiktok, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for his speeches.
Tate and the other defendants were ordered to pretrial detention in Romania at the end of 2022. They were released from pretrial detention to house arrest in May 2023, but at the beginning of August, house arrest was also waived.
– When I was thrown into prison in January, the media told the whole world that I was a horrible person. They said I was hurting people and making a lot of money through criminal organizations, Andrew Tate said after being released from house arrest.
– And here I am still standing, seven months later, and I haven’t seen the first victim in the news. Instead, several women have publicly defended me, he continued.
Tate maintained that he was completely innocent and thanked the Romanian legal system for making a fair decision. He said he was confident that he would eventually be acquitted of all charges.
In its story, the BBC notes that some of the messages it has seen may have been recorded or written in English and then translated into Romanian.
The BBC has also not seen the evidence in its original form, and is therefore unable to confirm whether all the messages used as evidence have been translated correctly, or whether all the messages were actually sent by the accused.
The BBC also states that not all the evidence it sees may be admissible in court.