By Reuters via
NBC News
Romania's public prosecutor's office said Thursday it had arrested controversial internet personality and former professional wrestler Andrew Tate on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group.
Tate, banned from many social networks for his misogynistic comments and hate speech, and his brother Tristan will be detained for 24 hours along with two Romanian suspects, prosecutors from the organized crime unit said in a statement.
A lawyer for the Tate brothers confirmed his arrest.
Andrew Tate in a video posted on Vimeo.FreeTopG via Vimeo
"The four suspects (...) appear to have created an organized crime group
with the purpose of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women,
forcing them to create pornographic content intended to be viewed on specialized websites in exchange for payment," the suspects warned. prosecutors, after registering their properties in Bucharest.
"They would have earned significant sums of money," the authorities detailed.
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Prosecutors said they
found six women who had been sexually exploited by the suspects.
Tate has said that women are partly responsible for being raped and that it belongs to men.
Earlier in the week, climate activist Greta Thunberg told Tate on Twitter to get on with life after he told her he owned 33 "huge emitting" vehicles.
