Ioan Gliga said both Andrew and Tristan Tate left Romania on Thursday morning.
The pair had previously been banned from leaving Romania pending a criminal investigation on accusations of forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. They have denied all wrongdoing.
Romania’s foreign minister last week said he had not come under pressure from US President Donald Trump’s envoy to lift restrictions on Tate, despite them discussing the case.
The Financial Times reported earlier, citing sources, that US officials had brought up the case of Tate and his brother, both former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship, in a phone call to the Romanian government.
Tate – who shot to internet fame in recent years, racking up billions of views on TikTok with diatribes about male dominance, female submission and wealth – was banned from almost all social media platforms before Trump’s now adviser Elon Musk took over X and reinstated his account.
A first criminal case against Tate and his brother – who were arrested three years ago – failed in December when a Bucharest court decided not to start the trial, citing flaws in the indictment.
A Romanian court lifted a house arrest order against Tate in January, replacing it with a lighter preventative measure. In October, a court ruled he should get back luxury cars worth about 4 million euros ($4.43 million) that were seized by prosecutors, pending the investigations.
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