Andrew Tate remains in custody as human trafficking probe continues

Former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate, has been ordered to remain in custody as investigation into human trafficking and rape continues.

A Romanian judge refused a request to release Tate, a British-U.S. citizen who has 4.5 million followers on Twitter, ordering him to remain in custody until February 27.

Tate was one of four suspects arrested on December 29 in Bucharest, and prosecutors have charged him, along with Tristan Tate, Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel, with taking part in recruiting young women and forcing them to create online pornographic content.

Tate was furious at the judge's decision and said via his lawyers that he is “being arrested for a crime of opinion”.

“We continue to maintain that practically at this moment the Tate brothers are being arrested for a crime of opinion, for what they said, at some point, in the online environment and not for what they actually did in their private lives”, Constantin Ioan Gliga, one of the defence lawyers, told Romanian news outlet Gandul.

Gliga added that the decision was “unjustified and totally exaggerated”.

The judge's ruling came after all four lost an appeal last week at a Bucharest court, which ruled to uphold a judge's December 30 move to uphold an earlier decision to extend their arrest from 24 hours to 30 days.

Tate is accused of recruiting scores of women and held them under house arrest “like prisoners” while forcing them to create online pornographic content on webcams.

Romanian prosecutors claim that Tate recruited the women on social media platforms and lured them to Bucharest by falsely professing his love and intention to marry them.

Romanian authorities on Saturday descended on a compound owned by Tate near Bucharest to tow away a fleet of 15 luxury cars and remove 14 designer watches and cash worth an estimated 3.6 million euros (£3.1 million).

They claimed allowing Tate and Tristan to not face imprisonment “poses a danger to public order”.

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