- Andrew Tate’s bodyguard described his life with his entourage in an interview while his boss was in prison.
- Bogdan Stancu said Tate’s house in Bucharest was full of women who thought they were going to marry him.
- Fooling women with a fake relationship is part of Tate’s “man-in-love method,” authorities say.
Andrew TateHis bodyguard told in an interview how many of the women around him had seen the controversial influencer. with the BBC.
Bogdan Stancu, who has worked at Tate’s campus in Bucharest, Romania for two years, told the women around Tate: they thought they would marry him.
“Some of the girls misunderstood the truth and believed it. [they would] be his next wife,” he said, describing his dreams.
Without providing specific evidence, Stancu speculated that this may have led to the allegations against Tate.
“When they get the truth, it’s easy to turn from friend to foe and testify to the police,” he told the BBC.
Stancu also told the BBC that he continues to support Tate, who is in prison as Romanian police continue their investigation.
There is another way of interpreting Stancu’s description of the women around Tate. Falsely believing that you are having an affair with someone is a common feature of a type of human trafficking that Romanian prosecutors say Tate is using.
they said you used the so-called “in love” strategy manipulating women to create porn for his online business.
Romania’s DIICOT investigation agency Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women For founding a criminal organization on December 29. They face allegations of human trafficking and rape.
a press release An article published by DIICOT following Tate’s arrest cited the “dear boy” method, which Umar Zeb, a senior associate at law firm JD Spicer Zeb Solicitors, told Insider, is common in human trafficking cases.
Zeb works by “trapping vulnerable victims” and “deceiving them into believing they’re in a loving relationship.”
“Once victims essentially fall in love, they are forced into various exploitative measures for the sex industry, including human trafficking,” he said.
Andrew Tate’s Bucharest campus.
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Tate clearly described how he hires women for his job, in terms that are very similar to the man-in-love method.
For example, on his now-deleted website, he said that he would make women fall in love with him so that he would “do everything I say and then hook him up to the webcam so we can get rich together.”
Zeb said social media has played a huge role in facilitating smugglers over the past few years. When he spoke to Insider earlier for an article in early January.
“Because of access, victims are not only more widely available, but the methods of coercion have changed,” he said.
“What used to be a scam that was practiced over a long period of time has now become a much faster form of decoy because victims are threatened through blackmail, such as exposure to pornographic images and violence.”
Stancu told the BBC she would “never doubt Andrew” and described the women who came forward with the allegations as “young and stupid”.
Tate’s lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, argues that his clients are innocent and disputes any evidence against them.
in Vidineac He told the Romanian newspaper Gândul It is argued that Tate is not the “violent, uneducated, abusive character” as it is thought and is discussed. what did he say on social media should not be used as evidence against him.
