Romanian court extends Andrew Tate detention by 30 days

Two female Romanian suspects, who were arrested at the same time as the Tate brothers, were to be moved to house arrest. All four deny wrongdoing.

Romanian prosecutors, who can apply to detain suspects for up to 180 days during investigations, successfully applied for the detention to be extended by another 30 days after the granting of a similar extension earlier this month.

Prosecutors have accused the Tates of seducing women by falsely claiming to want a relationship and then forcing them to produce pornographic content under duress.

Andrew Tate is also accused of raping one of the women last March.

Prosecutors have so far identified six alleged victims, including minors.

The Tates have been in custody since 29 December after Diicot officers searched their villa over allegations of sex trafficking.

The authorities said they had confiscated goods and money worth a total of 18m lei (£3.2m).

He was eventually banned from all major social media platforms, but reinstated on Twitter last November after Elon Musk bought the company. Tate now has 5.1m followers on the platform.