Romanian police have seized 11 luxury cars from notorious misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after the pair were arrested on trafficking charges.
The cars were taken in the wake of their high-profile arrest on December 29, with with Romanian investigators confirming the seizures today.
Romanian news outlet Gandul published photos it said showed the 11 cars, potentially worth millions of pounds, in the driveway of Tate’s Bucharest property.
If it is found that they were purchased through criminal activity by the brothers, the luxury vehicles could end up in the custody of the authorities.
Andrew Tate, 36, was seen in pictures earlier this week behind bars as he had been escorted to the Romanian detention centre on Thursday evening after the surprise raid of his £600,000 concrete bolthole on the outskirts of Bucharest.
Pictured alongside the millionaire in the van were Luana Radu and Georgiana Naghel, who are accused of luring women to the compound and then ‘coercing’ and ‘controlling’ them to create social media pornography.
Among the collection of cars seized by the authorities is a Rolls-Royce Wraith from the carmaker’s Black Badge range and an Aston Martin Vanquish S Ultimate, that have both featured in videos posted online by Tate.
According to TopGear.com, the Rolls-Royce is worth at least $300,000, while the Aston Martin goes for around $250,000.
A video posted by the former Big Brother contestant to YouTube shows he seemingly purchased the Wraith on a whim while he was walking around London with an entourage, which included his brother.
According to Romania’s Spy News, a Buggati Chiron (worth around $2.9 million), two Ferraris and a Porsche were among the other cars to have been seized.
Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania’s DIICOT investigations agency, confirmed that the cars had been seized to Insider.com.
She told the publication the fleet was being held to ‘sustain the cost of the investigation’ into Tate, and that they would be used as collateral to fund any payments to the alleged victims of the brothers’ alleged crimes.
Bolla added that investigators were working on establishing whether the Tate brothers purchased the car with funds made through human trafficking.
Tate’s copper-coloured Buggati Chiron became infamous after he posted a picture of him filling up its tank while bragging about his collection of 33 luxury cars in an effort to mock Swedish 19-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
‘Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,’ he tweeted along with the picture, tagging Miss Thunberg.
She replied: ‘Yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalld***energy@getalife.com,’ to which Tate replied with a two minute video of himself smoking a cigar in a bathrobe, sitting in front of pizza boxes.
Tate was branded the ’emperor of cringe,’ before he and his brother were arrested a matter of hours after he posted the video, with Miss Thunberg getting in the last laugh, writing in jest: ‘This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes’.
