Organized crime agents raid Andrew Tate’s Romanian homes

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Former kickboxer turned toxic masculinity influencer, Andrew Tatewho was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Chicago and later Indiana, but at one point adopted a fake British accent, woke up Wednesday to dozens of Romanian anti-organized crime agents raiding his four homes in the Eastern European city of Bucharest.

The raids came after a new wave of dark new allegations came to light alleging he was involved in human trafficking, abuse and forming criminal gangs with the express purpose of exploiting women. FOX briefly had a live outside broadcast of one of the four Bucharest homes owned by Andrew Tate as they were searched by anti-organized crime agents:

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Andrew Tate was a rising social media star with millions upon millions of followers across his various platforms. That was before he was banned from most of them. Meta banned Tate from Facebook and Instagram, rightfully so given his brand of toxic masculinity, but mostly because of the crimes he was allegedly involved in.

Andrew Tate was also banned from Twitter, but Elon Musk brought Tate back to X in 2022, where Tate has been in the past few days viral racist words and has not faced any punishment for his targeted hate speech.

The Associated Press published a story this morning about the latest raids on Andrew Tate’s properties. Among the crimes he is being investigated for are “investigating allegations of human trafficking, trafficking of minors, money laundering” and more.

DIICOT, the anti-organized crime unit in Romania that searched Andrew Tate’s four homes in Bucharest, said in a statement that “throughout the criminal proceedings, the persons under investigation benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as from the presumption of innocence.”

Andrew Tate breaks silence on police raids on his homes in Romania

Since Elon Musk unbanned Tate in 2022 and invited him to X, Tate has since broken his silence on the police actions with posts he shared on Elon’s platform. He shared these two posts:

After 9 hours of searching, an armed police officer looks at me apologetically and shrugs his shoulders.

He said, “You made someone very angry.”

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) August 21, 2024

I don’t have a phone anymore because it was confiscated by the police.

But when I speak out loud, my words are magically heard by someone sitting far away on a computer.

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) August 21, 2024

Oddly enough, Dan Bilzerian felt this was a good time to defend Andrew and his brother. Bilzerian shared this post on X, which was reshared by Tate:

The Tate brothers are good men, their souls are not for sale and that is why they are back in prison.

— Dan Bilzerian (@DanBilzerian) August 21, 2024

Bilzerian stands up for Andrew Tate after serious and alarming allegations are made against him, and reveals that anti-organized crime still raids the four Tate homes. That’s definitely an interesting choice on his part.

The Tate brothers were first arrested in 2022 and spent 3 months in jail before being placed under house arrest. They last appeared in court in March after Britain issued warrants for their arrest in connection with crimes dating back to 2012-2015. More information about this ongoing investigation will be released in the coming days.