Andrew Tate, self-described as the “king of toxic masculinity,” along with his brother Tristan, traveled from the US to Romania to meet legal requirements connected to a criminal case against them.
In Romania, the Tate brothers face charges including the establishment of an organized crime group and human trafficking, all of which they have denied.
Their aircraft, which Andrew Tate previously mentioned in a post on X, cost $185,000 for the transatlantic flight to sign a single document and arrived at Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport just before 1 a.m. local time on Saturday.
Upon reaching their home near Bucharest, they committed to proving their innocence in court, with Tate stating, “Innocent men don’t run from anything.”
He told reporters, “After all we’ve been through, we truly deserve the day in court where it is stated that we’ve done nothing wrong and that we should have never been in court in the first place.”
“We should have never gone to jail. We should have never had our assets seized. We should have never had our names slandered.”
“Anyone who believed any of this garbage has a particularly low IQ.”
As a condition of their judicial control while under investigation, the Tates must regularly report to Romanian authorities, with their next report scheduled for Monday.
This return trip to Romania occurred nearly a month after the brothers went to Florida when Romanian authorities lifted a travel restriction.
James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, announced earlier this month the opening of a criminal investigation against the brothers, supported by the US National Centre on Sexual Exploitation, representing one of Tate’s alleged victims.
Tate remarked on X that the brothers had returned to Miami to visit family and were dismayed by the launch of the investigation.
“We have no criminal record and were expecting a hero’s welcome after being unfairly mistreated abroad,” he wrote.
An earlier criminal case against the Tates in Bucharest was dismissed in December when the court returned the files to the prosecutors, pointing out defects in the charges.
Furthermore, a British arrest warrant has been issued for the Tates, and they are set to be extradited following the conclusion of the trial in Romania.
They also face allegations in Britain, which they deny, related to acts of sexual aggression from 2012 to 2015.
