EXCLUSIVE | Andrew Tate's conversion to Islam, under scrutiny by US authorities. DIICOT prosecutors search 19 countries for accounts where the Tate brothers may have stashed their money

DIICOT prosecutors are trying to convince the court that brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in pre-trial detention for further investigations in the case in which they are accused of establishing an organized criminal group, human trafficking, and rape. The investigation began after the US Embassy in Romania reported that an American woman was being held captive in the Tate brothers’ villa in Pipera. After the investigation began in Romania, the American authorities would also have started following the Tate brothers, but not for the same facts, but for their financial resources and money that allegedly went to tax havens, where they are said to have companies in which they are associated with American partners, judicial sources told Gândul exclusively.

Moreover, the major interest of the US would be related to the conversion of Andrew Tate to Islam in November 2021, and the investigations would be channeled towards his possible links with terrorist groups.

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In fact, Andrew Tate left prison on Tuesday for the Bucharest Court of Appeal with the Koran. He emerged from the police van with one hand handcuffed to his brother, Tristan Tate, and the other hand holding the Koran in plain view.

So far, in the file from DIICOT, which reached the judges of the Bucharest Court of Appeal on Tuesday and which has 17 volumes, the accounts of the Tate brothers are not identified.

Judicial sources stated, for Gândul, that in the next period the investigators will take all the necessary steps to trace the offshore money, especially that Andrew Tate claimed, in one of his many appearances on social media, that they have accounts in 19 countries.

Andrew Tate allegedly flirted with the Islamic religion since early 2021 and converted to Islam in November of the same year.

After the Tate brothers were arrested in Romania by anti-mafia prosecutors, Sameera Khan, a former US beauty pageant contestant who is part of Tate’s entourage, tweeted that the Taliban in Afghanistan were concerned about the fate of Andrew Tate. Sameera Khan also said that she hosted a conference on „Twitter space” attended by several Taliban from Afghanistan, newsweek.com wrote.

„They are concerned about the fate of Andrew Tate and are asking if he has been released. They say Westerners need Andrew Tate because they are oppressed by feminists,” said Sameera Khan.

The Tate brothers will find out Tuesday if they will remain in custody or be released

Andrew and Tristan Tate, together with their accomplice Georgiana Naghel and former policewoman Luana Alexandra Radu, were released from custody on Tuesday after 12 days and taken to the Bucharest Court of Appeal for their appeal against the 30-day pre-trial detention order issued by the Court on 30 December 2022.

The court has now concluded the trial and is due to decide on Tuesday whether the Tate brothers and the two Romanian women will remain in pre-trial detention or be placed under house arrest or be investigated while free, under judicial supervision.

Eugen Vidineac, the Tate brothers’ lawyer, said in an exclusive interview for Gândul (more details HERE), that the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism do not have any evidence to support the charges they formulated and that the only thing at the basis of the whole case is the statement of one of the victims, a woman from the Republic of Moldova.

The Tate brothers had their status changed from witnesses to suspects and from suspects to defendants on the evening of 29 December 2022, the date until which they had witness status, so they would not have the opportunity to study the prosecution file. The Brits were detained when the DIICOT prosecutor notified them of their status as defendants and issued a detention order, said lawyer Eugen Vidineac.