Andrew Tate, the self-styled "king of toxic masculinity", and his brother Tristan have flown from the US to Romania to fulfil legal obligations related to a criminal investigation against them.

The brothers are under investigation in Romania on multiple accusations, including forming an organised crime group and human trafficking, for which they have denied all wrongdoing.

The brothers' plane landed at Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport shortly before 1am local time on Saturday morning.

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After arriving at their residence near Bucharest, they vowed to clear their names in court, with Andrew Tate saying "innocent men don't run from anything".

He went on to tell reporters: "After all we've been through, we truly deserve the day in court where it is stated that we've done nothing wrong and that we should have never been in court in the first place," he said.

"We should have never gone to jail. We should have never had our assets seized. We should have never had our names slandered.

"Anyone who believed any of this garbage has a particularly low IQ."

Regular check-ins

As part of preventative judicial control measures pending the investigation, the Tates are required to regularly check in with authorities in Romania, with their next check-in due on Monday.

Their return to Romania comes almost a month after the brothers travelled to Florida after Romanian prosecutors lifted a travel ban against them.

Florida's attorney general James Uthmeier said earlier this month that his office had opened a criminal investigation against the brothers, a move welcomed by the US National Centre on Sexual Exploitation, which represents one of Tate's alleged victims.

Bucharest, Romania - February 06, 2023: Andrew Tate and his brother leave the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism where they w

Tate said on X at the time that the brothers had returned to Miami to see family and had been insulted by the opening of the investigation.

"We have no criminal record and expected a hero's welcome after being unfairly abused abroad," he wrote.

An initial criminal case against the Tate brothers failed in December when a Bucharest court decided not to start the trial and sent the files back to prosecutors, citing flaws in the indictment.

A British arrest warrant has also been issued for the Tates and they will be extradited after the Romanian trial proceedings are completed.

The allegations in Britain, which they have denied, relate to sexual aggression between 2012 and 2015.

Reporting via IRN.

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