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Andrew Tate, 38, and his brother Tristan Tate, 36, arrive into Fort Lauderdale International airport on Thursday, February 27, 2025. The pair returned to the United States after Romanian prosecutors agreed to lift travel restrictions imposed as part of a sex trafficking case there. (MiamiPIXX/VAEM/BACKGRID)
Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick to publicly announce that the brothers were not welcome in his state, and Attorney General James Uthmeier this week said that his office was seeking search warrants and subpoenas as part of an active criminal investigation.
The brothers are accused of luring women to Romania for sexual exploitation in a 2022 case in which prosecutors suffered a major setback after a judge found there were too many problems to bring it to trial. In a second criminal case opened in August 2024, they are also being investigated for allegedly trafficking underage girls.Â
It was not immediately clear what Florida investigators believe they did there.
In this grab taken from video released by Observator Antena 1, social media personality Andrew Tate is led away by police, in the Ilfov area, north of Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. (Observator Antena 1 via AP)
“In Florida, this type of behavior is viewed as atrocious,” Uthmeier told a reporter at the Florida Capitol on Tuesday. “We’re not going to accept it.”
Andrew Tate is expected to be extradited to the United Kingdom on separate charges following the conclusion of the Romanian cases.
The brothers are dual citizens of the U.S. and U.K., but were living in Romania.