Former skilled kickboxer and controversial web character Andrew Tate was detained in Romania Thursday, alongside together with his brother, on suspicion of human trafficking, Reuters reviews.
Tate and his brother Tristan had been arrested, together with two Romanian nationals, Romanian prosecutors advised Reuters.
“The four suspects…appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost,” prosecutors mentioned in a press release obtained by Reuters.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned that six ladies got here ahead to assert they’d been sexually exploited by the suspects, Reuters reported.
Lawyers for the Tate brothers confirmed to Reuters that that they had been taken into custody. They will probably be held for at the least 24 hours, prosecutors advised Reuters.
Tate is thought for spreading hate speech, misogyny and violence. In August, he was banned from each Facebook and Instagram for violating Meta’s insurance policies on harmful organizations and people. He has additionally been banned from posting to YouTube.
In 2017, he was suspended from Twitter for saying ladies “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted, this as allegations in opposition to disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had been pouring in. He was reinstated to Twitter final month after Elon Musk took possession of the corporate.
Earlier this week, Tate obtained right into a Twitter feud with local weather activist Greta Thunberg.
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