Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate have reported to a police station in Romania, after weeks spent in the US.
Checking in with the authorities, which they did in Bucharest on Monday, local time, was a legal formality the after they were charged last year with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
The brothers remain under judicial control, which requires them to appear before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned.
Outside the police station, located near the Bucharest capital, Andrew Tate told reporters he was a "free person who has not been convicted of anything".
The brothers, who deny all of the allegations against them, were arrested in Romania in 2022 and formally indicted last year on charges that they participated in a criminal ring that lured women to Romania, where they were allegedly sexually exploited.
Andrew Tate was also charged with rape.
The Tates, who are dual US and British citizens, returned to Romania on a private flight after spending weeks in the US, where they flew after a travel ban imposed on them was lifted last month.
Days after they arrived in Florida, the state's Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office had opened a criminal investigation into the brothers.
He said in a social media post that his office will work with law enforcement to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the brothers.
Details of the case
The lifting of their two-year travel ban came after a Bucharest court in December ruled that a case against the brothers could not go to trial because of legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors.
That development was a major victory for the Tate brothers and a blow to Romania's anti-organised crime agency DIICOT.
The case, however, remained open.
Last August, DIICOT also launched a second case against the brothers, investigating allegations of human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering.
The Tates have strongly denied those charges as well.
Andrew Tate, 38, a former professional kickboxer who has amassed more than 10 million followers on X, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him.
The Tate brothers' legal battles are not limited to Romania.
Four British women who accused Andrew Tate of sexual violence and physical abuse are suing him in the UK after the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute him.
In March last year, the Tate brothers appeared at the Bucharest Court of Appeal in a separate case after UK authorities issued arrest warrants over allegations of sexual aggression in a case dating back to the period from 2012 to 2015.
The appeals court granted the UK request to extradite the Tates, but only after legal proceedings in Romania have concluded.
AP
