The Romanian authorities have been charged this Tuesday for human trafficking and rape of the former boxer and British-American streamer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, as well as two Romanian women detained with them in December 2022.

The Directorate of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has indicated in a statement that these four peoplewhich are under house arrestThey also face charges for organizing a criminal group, illegal access to computer systems, alteration of computer data and incitement to violence.

Thus, he has detailed that the four are suspected of creating at the beginning of 2021 a “criminal group” for “human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom”, while specifying that they would have caught people deceiving them into believing that they would start a sentimental relationship.

“Subsequently, they were transferred and received in buildings in Ilfov county, where through acts of physical violence and psychological coercion (…) were sexually exploited by the members of the group, forcing them to carry out pornographic acts to produce and disseminate them on platforms of this content”, he explained, before detailing that seven victims have been identified.

The arrest of the Tate brothers took place after the ex-boxer posted a video on social networks and in which he responded to a mockery of the young environmentalist Greta Thunberg, all of it eating pizza from a popular Romanian pizza chain.

The appearance of the pizza box in the video made it clear that Tate was in Romanian territory, which allowed the authorities of the European country to speed up the case and finally break into the place where the well-known ‘streamer’ was staying. ultra-conservative ideology and skeptic of climate change.