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Bucharest, Romania — A tribunal successful Romania's superior connected Friday ruled that a proceedings tin commencement successful nan lawsuit of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged pinch quality trafficking, rape and forming a criminal pack to sexually utilization women. The Bucharest Tribunal ruled that prosecutors' lawsuit record against Tate met nan ineligible criteria but did not group a day for nan proceedings to begin.
Tate's spokesperson, Mateea Petrescu, said nan ruling had been appealed.
Tate, 37, was arrested successful December 2022 adjacent Bucharest on pinch his brother, Tristan Tate, and 2 Romanian women. Romanian prosecutors formally indicted each 4 successful June past year. They person denied nan allegations.
"The ruling issued by nan preliminary enclosure judge lacks ineligible ground and reasoning," Eugen Vidineac, 1 of nan brothers' lawyers, said aft nan decision. "We person revenge a beardown entreaty arsenic we judge nan ruling to beryllium unlawful."
Andrew Tate, right, and his relative Tristan leaving nan tribunal successful Bucharest, Romania connected Feb. 29, 2024.
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Ahead of nan court's determination Friday, nan ineligible lawsuit had been discussed for months successful nan preliminary enclosure stages, a process successful which nan defendants tin situation prosecutors' grounds and lawsuit file.
"We reassert our belief successful nan fairness of nan arguments we presented during nan preliminary proceeding and successful nan memoranda concerning nan legality of nan criminal investigation," said Ioan Gliga, different lawyer for nan Tates. "Although they did not person nan basal attraction successful nan preliminary hearing, we are assured that nan entreaty tribunal judge sheet will support us."
Andrew Tate, who has amassed 9.1 cardinal followers connected nan societal media level X, formerly Twitter, has many times claimed that prosecutors successful Romania person nary grounds against him and that location is simply a governmental conspiracy to soundlessness him.
Tate was antecedently banned from various salient societal media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and for dislike speech. Both Tates are dual British-U.S. citizens.
Last month, nan Bucharest Tribunal extended geographical restrictions against Tate, a erstwhile master kickboxer, stipulating he cannot time off nan country. Tate had requested that he beryllium capable to recreation wrong nan European Union pinch nan anterior support of a judge.
After nan Tate brothers' arrest, they were held for 3 months successful constabulary detention earlier being moved to location arrest. They were later restricted to Bucharest Municipality and adjacent Ilfov County, but tin now recreation freely astir Romania.
Also past month, nan Tate brothers appeared astatine nan Bucharest Court of Appeal successful a abstracted case, aft British authorities issued apprehension warrants complete allegations of intersexual aggression successful a U.K. lawsuit making love backmost to 2012-2015.
The appeals tribunal granted nan British petition to extradite nan Tates to nan U.K., but only aft ineligible proceedings successful Romania person concluded.
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