Romanian prosecutors opened a new investigation on Thursday, May 28, into Andrew Tate over alleged incitement to hatred and discrimination against women, adding a fresh criminal case to a figure already under scrutiny in Romania and Britain. The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, known as DIICOT, said the 39-year-old British citizen is suspected of using speeches promoted on social media between 2021 and 2024 to encourage hostility toward women.
The move matters because Tate is not entering this case from a position of distance. He and his brother Tristan have spent years inside Romania’s legal system, and the new probe lands while both remain under investigation there even though a Bucharest court revoked judicial control in April 2026. That left the brothers free of preventive restrictions after a long period of detention, house arrest and judicial supervision, but it did not end the cases built around them.
DIICOT’s description of the alleged conduct is specific. Prosecutors said the material under review consists of multiple social media speeches in which Tate allegedly incited the public to hatred and discrimination against women. The office did not publish the statements themselves, leaving open the question of which posts or clips are being used as evidence and how prosecutors will connect them to the criminal accusation.
The new investigation folds into a wider file that has already shadowed the brothers for years. In August 2024, DIICOT announced searches in Bucharest and Ilfov County in a case involving organized crime, trafficking of minors, human trafficking, sexual acts with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. Prosecutors said Andrew and Tristan Tate, along with accomplices, allegedly recruited 34 women starting in 2015 and forced them to produce pornographic material for paid distribution on specialized platforms.
Investigators also said the brothers made roughly USD 2.8 million from the alleged scheme, and that one of them was suspected of repeatedly having intimate relations with a 15-year-old girl identified as a victim in the case. The two men were first detained for several months in Romania, then placed under house arrest and later judicial control, a sequence that shows how far the legal pressure has already gone before this latest case was opened.
There is another layer to the backdrop. Last year, the Trump administration reportedly pressed Romanian authorities to lift the Tates’ travel ban. After that restriction was removed, Andrew and Tristan Tate left Romania, returned briefly to meet with prosecutors, and then departed again. Meanwhile, British police reopened an investigation at the end of March 2026 after accusations from several women over alleged rape and sexual assault said to have occurred in 2014 and 2015.
What comes next in the Romanian case was not disclosed. The new investigation makes clear that prosecutors are still widening the legal net around Tate, even as the underlying question remains whether any of the social media speeches from 2021 to 2024 can be tied tightly enough to a criminal case to withstand the next stage of review.
