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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have returned to Romania, where they are facing human trafficking charges, following their trip to Florida after their travel ban was lifted.
The Tate brothers checked in at a police station near Romania’s capital on Monday, complying with judicial control requirements in the case in which they are charged with forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
Andrew spoke with reporters outside the police station in Voluntari and said, “I’m a free person who has not been convicted of anything.”
He added he will “comply with all judicial authorities everywhere around the world because I’m completely innocent.”
The Tate brothers, who are dual U.S.-British citizens, remain under criminal investigation for the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor and money laundering.
Andrew also faces an additional charge of rape. They have both denied any wrongdoing.
The brothers remain under judicial control, which requires them to appear before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned. They were due to check in with a surveillance officer on March 24.
“It doesn’t matter what you’re accused of, it matters what you are proven guilty to have done in a fair court of law,” Andrew said on Monday. “Accusations mean nothing. It doesn’t matter how many times you repeat an accusation on the news. That is garbage.”
The brothers arrived in Romania on March 22, shortly before 1 a.m. local time, nearly one month after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted.
“Spending $185,000 dollars on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper in Romania. Innocent men don’t run. THEY CLEAR THEIR NAME IN COURT,” Andrew posted on X to his over 10 million followers with a photo of himself on a plane.
After arriving at their residence near the capital, Bucharest, Andrew told reporters they returned because “innocent men don’t run from anything.”
“We’ve come here to prove our innocence because we deserve our day in court,” he said.
“After all we’ve been through, we truly deserve the day in court where it is stated that we’ve done nothing wrong and that we should have never been in court in the first place. We should have never gone to jail. We should have never had our assets seized. We should have never had our names slandered,” he said. “Anyone who believed any of this garbage has a particularly low IQ…