Andrew Tate to stay in Romanian custody for further 30 days

A Romanian court today ordered that Tate would be detained for a further 30-days in the ongoing human trafficking, organised crime case.

The reality TV star and former kickboxer, who was removed from Big Brother in 2016, was detained alongside his brother Tristan while his house was raided in Bucharest.

The Tate brothers have been under investigation since April, alongside two other suspects.

Tate, 36, a British-US citizen who has nearly five million followers on Twitter, arrived at the Bucharest Court of Appeal Wednesday morning handcuffed to his brother .

The- ruling will see the suspects face time in custody until February 27 as prosecutors continue investigating the case.

Last week, prosecutors said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage.

Authorities suspect the pair, along with two Romanian nationals, of running ‘an organised crime group’.

Police will continue to hold the group for another 30-day period, after a court rejected their second appeal today.

After the arrests in December police said they had identified six people who were allegedly ‘sexually exploited’ by what it called an ‘organised criminal group’.

Police alleged the victims were ‘recruited’ by the British citizens, who they said misrepresented their intention to enter into a relationship with the victims – which it called ‘the loverboy method’.

They were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, a statement alleged.

Source of data and images: metro