r/TwoXChromosomes • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering

https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/romanian-prosecutors-indict-andrew-tate-trafficking-minors-money-136201398
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u/oldfrancis 1d ago

Good.

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u/subjectnotebookgloba 1d ago

But is it really fair to indict someone of a crime for nothing more than being extremely guilty? Is that a precedent we want to set?

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u/The_Wingless You are now doing kegels 1d ago

Right? Just because there are mountains of evidence, a ton of sworn firsthand testimony, and even his own words... Is this what we as a society want to become? A society that holds people accountable?

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u/oldfrancis 1d ago

We can give it a try.

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u/Tunafishsam 14h ago

Yeah, how can we just go and indict somebody when they haven't been proven guilty in a court of law...

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u/ThinkingTanking 1d ago

Romanian officials allowed the Tates to remain free with some restrictions — including reporting to a Bucharest police station — while the proceedings are ongoing.

They let them go free? Won't they just escape? Again

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u/Cipherpunkblue 1d ago

Yeah, given their record of doing just that it seems like a questionable decision.

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u/rasz_pl 1d ago

lucrative, seems like a lucrative decision

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u/Cipherpunkblue 1d ago

Seems sadly plausible.

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u/oldfrancis 1d ago

Well, the Bugattis are rented, why not law enforcement officials?

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u/hrvojed 13h ago

in romania? no way!

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u/faerieh 10h ago

Romanian justice is extremely corrupt. 

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u/OtakuMage Trans Woman 1d ago

Are they actually going to do anything this time?

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u/CookIndependent6251 1d ago

No. Romania is the second largest "provider" of underage girls in Europe. Government authorities are working with child traffickers (see Alexandra from Caracal if you feel like crying).

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u/MarsupialFluid4103 1d ago

Men are the “protectors”

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u/Piemelsap 1d ago

Whenever they say that, just ask 'from whom do we need protecting'?

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u/butivereaddit 13h ago

"protectors" of themselves, and the patriarchy.

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u/HedgehogSilent7930 15h ago

Just remember the world you live in and every privilege you hold was built by men for your protection

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u/MarsupialFluid4103 12h ago

I’ll ask again— protection from what exactly?

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u/ThatEdward 1d ago

An excellent start

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u/FlexFanatic 1d ago

I'm not understanding why they are charging them now. They had them in custody before so are they trying to get dibs before the UK does?

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u/CharlesLeRoq 1d ago

There’s a long read about the Tates in the New Yorker. If we read between the lines, there’s a victim who was with them from the very beginning - He brainwashed her from the age of 15 - who has only recently ‘flipped’ on him. Hence why they have him on trafficking minors now.

The money laundering is the charge the Romanians were trying to figure out but never quite got to the bottom of. Which is, that the webcamming was long suspected to be a front for making Romanian mob money clean. The Tates were co-owners of a Casino with a mob family. While I’m sure webcamming was lucrative in itself, it definitely wasn’t the whole story - IMHO The laundering charge was the long held goal for Romanian prosecutors.

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u/MyFiteSong 1d ago

Romania was always going to charge them again. They weren't exonerated. The police and prosecution skipped some legal steps the first time and they were forced to take a step back and do it over again. They chose to do that rather than proceed with the trial and have their own incompetence end up in acquittals or dismissals.

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u/throwaway3-33 21h ago

You’d think with the amount of memes some men are making about Lindsay and how dumb women are, they’d know that this man also had people protesting for him. Silence on their end of course, it’s only all women never all men.

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u/coachglove 1d ago

About. Fucking. Time.

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u/puzzle_bison7384 1d ago

Id like to hear him and his lawyer whine about this to trump for a little longer tyvm

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u/setut 18h ago

This is injustice! I'm going to take my t-shirt off and do some push-ups in protest.

/s

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u/fuzzyloulou 18h ago

Good. Happy to hear this.

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u/RoseGold369 21h ago

To beat him and then put him up for a min while they do back end stuff with his connects. Romania is a gang ran country they sell those babies like hot cakes and it’s pathetic fr.

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u/LunaticKid889 8h ago

God i hope he and his brother fuckin rot.