The US officials from the Trump administration have reportedly called Romanian authorities to remove travel restrictions placed on Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who are facing criminal charges in Romania, report by Financial Times said.
Sources told the Financial Times that US officials had contacted Bucharest last week by phone, which was followed by a meeting between Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, and Romania’s foreign minister. Another insider revealed that a request was made to return the brothers’ passports and allow them to travel while their court proceedings are ongoing.
Notably, the movement of two brothers have been restricted since their arrest in 2022.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are currently facing human trafficking and other criminal charges in Romania, which they deny.
The Tate brothers, both former kickboxers have dual U.S. and British citizenship.
Andrew Tate is known for expressing misogynistic views online and has amassed 9.9 million followers on the social media platform X, and has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him. He was previously banned from various social media platforms for misogynistic views and hate speech.