According to the Daily Mirror, former kickboxer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping two girls in Romania.
Mr Tate’s house in Bucharest, where he was detained alongside his brother Tristan, was raided.
According to newsmen, a lawyer for the brothers confirmed their detention.
The former kickboxer rose to prominence in 2016 after being booted from the British TV show Big Brother due to a video that appeared to show him assaulting a woman.
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He went on to become well-known online, with Twitter banning him for saying that women should “bear responsibility” for sexual assault. He was later reinstated.
It was gathered that the arrest followed a Twitter squabble between him and climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, after he posed alongside a Romanian pizza box, which may have inadvertently revealed his location to Romanian authorities.
Thunberg’s tweet has now become one of the top 20 most liked tweets of all time with 2.9 million likes currently at number 17. It could hit the top 10 by the weekend.
The brothers have been under investigation since April alongside two Romanian nationals.
Romanian police have released a video of a raid which appears to be on controversial influencer Andrew Tate’s villa in Bucharest.
BREAKING: Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrested in Romania in human trafficking probe pic.twitter.com/b5eaZrErAb
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