Andrew Tate & his brother ‘arrested’ at luxury villa in Romania over ‘human trafficking probe’

ANDREW Tate and his brother have been arrested after their luxury Romanian mansion was raided by police. The influencer and his brother Tristain are suspected of human trafficking, according to local reports. Andrew Tate has reportedly been arrested The pair have reportedly been under investigation for the alleged kidnapping of two young women in their villa in the town of Voluntari. Their home was raided by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Bucharest earlier today. Pictures and video show the brothers being accompanied out of the house in handcuffs by cops. Andrew is seen with his hood up as armed police dressed in balaclavas led him away. Controversial Tate initially gained fame after a short-lived appearance on Big Brother. He was dumped from the reality show over alleged footage of him beating a woman emerged online. Since then he has sparked revulsion and outrage with a wave of content online. The Washington DC-born Tate was accused of spreading hate towards women as he built his profile. The influencer was banned from Twitter in 2017 for violating its terms of service with his controversial comments. He has previously referred to women as “property” and said they should bear “some responsibility” if they are sexually assaulted. In August, Tate was banned from a range of other social media sites. TikTok banned him for misogyny, while Meta said he violated their policies around “Dangerous Individuals and Organisations”. He is also banned on YouTube. Tate has denied accusations of misogyny and claimed that many of his clips are “taken out of context”. Tate’s Twitter official account has now been reactivated after the takeover by Elon Musk.