Andrew and brother Tristan Tate leave Romania for US on private jet: Live updates – UK Times

According to the FT’s sources, a request was made during these discussions to return the brothers’ passports and permit them to travel while awaiting the conclusion of court proceedings.

However, Hurezeanu insists he was not pressured by Grenell during their conversation at the Munich Security Conference.

Tate, the highest profile suspect facing trial for human trafficking in Romania, was banned from almost all social media platforms before Trump’s now adviser Elon Musk took over X and reinstated his account.

Hurezeanu told Euronews late on Tuesday he had had an informal chat with Grenell in a hallway during the Munich conference. Hurezeanu cited Grenell as saying he remained interested in the fate of the Tate brothers.

“I did not perceive this statement as pressure, just a repeat of a known stance,” Hurezeanu said.

“I don’t know what pressures of another nature were made before or after but what I discussed with Mr Grenell was cordial, informal, brief, non-binding and I certainly did not detect any form of pressure.”

Former boxer Andrew Tate has amassed millions of followers across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok over the past decade.

But he has also seen his accounts banned over inflammatory statements he has made, often appearing to advocate violence against women, which the platforms ruled violated their policies.

Frequently accused of embodying toxic masculinity and misogyny, having claimed that women cannot drive, belong in the home and are a man’s property, Mr Tate has made inconsistent statements on the subject.

He told the Anything Goes with James English podcast in June 2021 that he was “absolutely sexist” and “absolutely a misogynist”, only to then claim on Piers Morgan Uncensored more recently that he was “absolutely not”.

He has also claimed that his remarks, viewed by millions online, are made in the persona of a “comic character” and have been unfairly taken out of context.

But he has found an eager audience online for his messages of male empowerment, with teachers increasingly coming forward to express concern about his potentially radicalising influence on impressionable teenage boys, fearing they could take the wrong lessons from pronouncements like the “41 Tenets” on his website.

Romanian prosecutors approved the request of internet personality Andrew Tate to travel outside Romania pending criminal investigation, they said on Thursday.

Local media reported earlier that Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left Romania on a private flight for the United States early on Thursday.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have reportedly left Romania and are believed to be heading to the US.

The brothers left the country after 5am local time this morning on a private jet from Baneasa airport, sources have told the BBC.

G4media.ro reported the brothers were on a flight to Florida, citing “airport sources”.

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