Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother fly to the US
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The two men face charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania and the UK, which they deny.
Also on the programme: we look ahead to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's first face to face meeting with President Trump; and we pay tribute to the Hollywood star Gene Hackman, who has been found dead, alongside his wife, in their home in New Mexico.
(Picture: Controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate in Bucharest, January 2025. Credit: Ganea / Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm James Menendez. And our top story today takes us to Romania in the case of the highly |
| 0:13.6 | controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, because in the very early hours of this |
| 0:19.2 | morning, they both left the country on a private jet headed for Florida in the United States. |
| 0:24.8 | They both have US as well as British citizenship. |
| 0:28.3 | Both men were facing a set of serious charges in Romania, including rape and sex trafficking, |
| 0:33.4 | and until yesterday they weren't allowed to leave the country. |
| 0:36.8 | Then, abruptly, the terms of their remand changed and they were given back their passports. |
| 0:42.5 | The key question is why? |
| 0:44.5 | Well, as we'll hear in a moment, their case is known to be on the minds of officials in the Trump administration. |
| 0:50.5 | Both men deny all the allegations. |
| 0:52.2 | In 2003, Andrew Tate sat down for an interview with the BBC. |
| 0:56.4 | Here's a short excerpt. We have an open criminal investigation. I am absolutely not really sure I'll be found innocent. |
| 1:02.4 | I know the case better than you. I know it intimately and you don't. I have seen all the criminal |
| 1:06.5 | files and the evidence against me and you haven't. I know the truth of what happens and you don't. |
| 1:11.1 | And I'm telling you absolutely not really. I've never hurt anybody that the case that's been |
| 1:15.0 | put against me is completely not really fabricated and I'm never going to be found guilty of anything. |
| 1:18.8 | And it's very difficult for me to answer your in-depth questions because we're sitting here |
| 1:21.7 | inside of the territory of Romania. I'm beholden to the Romanian legal system. And I'm not going to incriminate myself. Well, the BBC's Nick Thorpe is also across the case. |
| 1:30.1 | He's in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, following developments for us. |
| 1:33.7 | They were arrested initially at the end of December 2022 |
| 1:37.5 | and finally charged in June 2023. |
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