Tristan & Andrew Tate claim their charges are about stealing TikTok money from women Rumble\/Andrew TateTristan Tate has claimed that the \u201cofficial story\u201d about the charges against him and his brother Andrew accuses them of taking money from girls on TikTok. Back in December 2022, the Tate brothers \u2013 Andrew and Tristan \u2013 were arrested by Romanian authorities as part of an investigation into human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized crime group. Their Romanian home was also raided in the process, with cars and other items being seized. The brothers, along with two women, were held by authorities until May before finally being released. Though, they were placed under house arrest for at least 30 days. Numerous social media accounts sent messages on behalf of the Tate\u2019s while they were being held by authorities, but now they\u2019re back home, they\u2019ve started streaming again. Their return stream was watched by over 400,000 viewers and contained some claims about their arrests. Tate brothers claim they\u2019re being investigated for stealing TikTok income \u201cHere is the official story. In 2021, two years ago, my brother and I formed an organized criminal gang with the intent of moving women to Romania so we could steal money from their TikTok accounts to enrich ourselves,\u201d Tristan said during their stream. He acknowledged that he used to run a webcam studio, where women were put to work, but it is now defunct. He claimed there is \u201cno link\u201d between that and what he and his brother are currently being accused of. \u201cThat is the narrative, that is what I have been arrested for,\u201d he added, referring back to the claim about making money from TikTok. \u201cThis is the first time publicly I can finally clear that up.\u201d As per Reuters and other reports, the Tate brothers and the two female suspects\u2019 official charges are for forming an organized criminal gang, suspected human trafficking of multiple victims, and an accusation of rape. The Tate brothers deny all charges. Charges against them were recently \u201cbroadened\u201d and changed the investigation to a focus on \u201chuman trafficking in continued form.\u201d This, as per Romanian officials, is a \u201cmore serious crime\u201d than the separate counts of trafficking and as such could land them up to 10 years of prison time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tristan & Andrew Tate claim their charges are about stealing TikTok money from women Rumble\/Andrew TateTristan Tate has claimed that the \u201cofficial story\u201d about the charges against him and his brother Andrew accuses them of taking money from girls on TikTok. Back in December 2022, the Tate brothers \u2013 Andrew and Tristan \u2013 were arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}