EXCLUSIV | Andrew Tate found out before he was arrested that he suffers from a serious illness. What DIAGNOSIS the doctors gave him and how he wanted to convince the court to let him leave for Dubai

Accused of establishing an organized criminal group, human trafficking and rape, the eccentric millionaires Andrew and Tristan Tate remain in pre-trial detention at least until the end of March, following the decision taken on Monday the 27th of February by the Bucharest Court of Appeal. Beyond all these accusations, however, a bombshell offers new insight into Andrew Tate’s insistence on being released from custody.

According to information obtained by Gândul, Andrew Tate revealed to the judges that he suffers from a very serious illness, which he found out about after an investigation in Dubai, just days before being charged and arrested for human trafficking.

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The British millionaire tried to persuade the court to release him so that he could return to Dubai, where he should be re-examined by the specialists who diagnosed him in December 2022, but the judges ruled that he could be investigated and treated in Romanian hospitals.

Gândul also found out, exclusively, what was the diagnosis that Andrew Tate received in Dubai.

Andrew Tate hopes to go to Dubai for a re-examination.”

Gândul sources exclusively state that “he was diagnosed with a tracheal tumor with extension to the bronchi and lungs.”

At the same time, they also explained what would have been the two scenarios considered by the British millionaire, depending on the judges’ decision.

“The British millionaire was diagnosed with a tracheal tumor spreading to his bronchi and lungs. That’s why, in January 2023, Andrew Tate hoped that if the court released him from custody, he would go to Dubai for a re-examination.

If he had not been released, he was to go to Ponderas Hospital. It is precisely at the Ponderas hospital that he was subsequently examined, whilst in custody”, said Gândul sources.

“I can fly with a Nigerian or American or English or Polish or Estonian passport.”

The two millionaires and their lawyers tried, after being remanded in custody, to prove that they could be investigated in liberty, but were unsuccessful, with prosecutors arguing that they have a „background” that leaves no room for interpretation, and the way they acted in relation to the victims shows very clearly the „social danger”.

In the course of the investigation, even a „pattern” was established according to which the brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate acted, the two having, according to DIICOT prosecutors, the ability to identify other potential victims, precisely in order to take advantage of their vulnerability.

Prosecutors also indicated that brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate could flee Romania if they were released from custody.

The investigators highlighted, in this context, an older statement of one of the two eccentric millionaires, who stated that he had accounts in 19 countries of the world and could fly using several passports.

“If I’m wrong and England wants me in jail, I can fly with a Nigerian or American or English or Polish or Estonian passport. I have bank accounts in 19 countries”, DIICOT prosecutors indicated in the report in which they requested, in January, a 30-day extension of the pre-trial detention, of which Gândul presented exclusive extracts.

Another „strategy” allegedly set up by the Tate brothers

Life on remand is on the opposite end of the spectrum to the one Andrew and Tristan Tate were leading in freedom. Under such circumstances, the millionaires tried another „strategy” to convince the judges to release them.

The scenario involved several girls who had worked for the arrested millionaires coming forward and declaring, „distressed” and affected by the situation, that they were not victims and that no one had forced them to do videochat.

“Let’s pretend to suffer, let’s tell the judiciary that we love the boys and that we have been misled and that we don’t like this situation. If we wear sunglasses we might even manage to squeeze out a tear or two, and then congratulate each other on how good actresses we are, And the Oscar goes to….”, it is shown in the motivation of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which cites intercepts from the case, according to Digi 24.

“In order to break the victims’ resistance and turn them into slaves”

According to the Report proposing the extension of the pre-trial detention order,  brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate exercised permanent control over the victims, ultimately turning them into „slaves”.

„The particularly high dangerousness of the offences for which the defendants are being investigated stems from:

• their exercised ability to identify potential victims of human trafficking;
• Their ability to take advantage of the victims’ vulnerability, given the latter’s young age, lack of affectionate and caring support from family members and society, the existence of previous acts of violence that caused unidentified and untreated trauma, including sexual abuse;
• the ability and effort of the defendants to exercise permanent psychological control over the victims, including by resorting to constant acts of violence, precisely in order to break down the resistance of the victims and turn them into slaves,” it was stated in the Report with the proposal to extend the preventive detention measure.

„Exercising acts of physical violence and mental coercion”

Andrew and Tristan Tate, together with Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel, were detained on the 29-th of December 2022 and remanded in custody a day later, at the request of the DIICOT prosecutors, who accuse them „of allegedly establishing an organized criminal group during 2021 with a view to committing the crime of human trafficking in Romania and other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom”.

„The victims were then transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov county where, through acts of physical violence and psychological coertion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and the allegation of debts),they  were sexually exploited by members of the group by being forced to engage in pornographic acts with a view to producing and disseminating such material via social media platforms and by being forced to perform forced labor in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting in sums of money obtained as a result of users accessing the material”, according to the DIICOT.

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