(11 Jan 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest - 11 January 2023
1. Various exteriors of Bucharest court
2. Various interior shots of court lobby
3. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Constantin Gliga, lawyer for the Tate brothers:
“ The stake of the complaint is to reduce as much as possible the the size of the seizure, because it is incommensurable in our opinion.’’
4. Cutaway
5. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Constantin Gliga, lawyer for the Tate brothers:
"A fundamental principle in the matter of insurance measures is proportionality, which in this case was obviously exceeded, by referring to the claims of the civil parties constituted until this moment.“
6. Various of court
STORYLINE:
The divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate, who remains arrested in Romania on charges of being part of an organized crime group and human trafficking, will appear at another court in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Wednesday to challenge assets seized during police raids, an official said.
Lawyers for the Tate brothers were appealing Wednesday against the seizure of good belonging to the media personality saying the size of the seizure is “incommensurable’’.
Prosecutors investigating the case have seized 15 luxury cars, at least seven of which were owned by the Tate brothers, and more than 10 properties or land owned by companies registered to them.
Video footage from the December raids posted by Romanian anti-organized crime agency DIICOT also showed wads of cash and a handgun.
Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has amassed 4.5 million followers on Twitter, was initially detained on December 29 in Bucharest along with his brother Tristan Tate and two Romanian women, who are all charged in the same case.
All four defendants lost an appeal on Tuesday at the Bucharest Court of Appeal which upheld a judge’s December 30 decision to grant prosecutors’ request to extend the arrest period from 24 hours to 30 days.
Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
The week of his arrest, he traded insults on Twitter with teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
After the appeals court upheld the arrest warrant extension, prosecutors can now request detentions of up to 180 days for the four people charged.
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