Andrew Tate was indicted in June 2023, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women for human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

The Tate brothers have repeatedly denied these allegations, with Andrew going on record multiple times to say the entire case was “The Matrix” framing him because of his success.

The details of the commencement of the Tate trial remain undisclosed.

Romanian authorities and prosecutors seized assets belonging to Tate as part of a criminal inquiry into the accused in the early months of 2023.

In December, the Bucharest Court overturned Tate’s challenge against the seizure of his assets. However, last week, the Court of Appeal accepted his request, ordering the reanalyses of the seizure.

Epstein’s accusers say that the billionaire’s private island ‘Little St James’ in US Virgin Islands was the centre of an international sex trafficking ring.

While Tate has expressed his desire to buy the island, Epstein’s infamous Caribbean islands were bought by private equity mogul Stephen Deckoff for $60 million, less than half of their initial asking price of $125 million.

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