Tate, 37, was arrested in December 2022 close to Bucharest alongside together with his brother, Tristan Tate, and two Romanian ladies.
Romanian prosecutors formally indicted all 4 in June final 12 months. They’ve denied the allegations.
“The ruling issued by the preliminary chamber choose lacks authorized foundation and reasoning,” Eugen Vidineac, one of many brothers’ attorneys, mentioned after the choice.
“We’ve filed a powerful attraction as we imagine the ruling to be illegal.”
Forward of the court docket’s determination on Friday, the authorized case had been mentioned for months within the preliminary chamber levels, a course of through which the defendants can problem prosecutors’ proof and case file.
“We reassert our perception within the equity of the arguments we offered throughout the preliminary listening to and within the memoranda in regards to the legality of the felony investigation,” mentioned Ioan Gliga, one other lawyer for the Tates.
“Though they didn’t obtain the mandatory consideration within the preliminary listening to, we’re assured that the attraction court docket choose panel will assist us.”
Andrew Tate, who has amassed 9.1 million followers on the social media platform X, previously Twitter, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania don’t have any proof in opposition to him and that there’s a political conspiracy to silence him.
Tate was beforehand banned from numerous outstanding social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and for hate speech. Each Tates are twin British-US residents.
Final month, the Bucharest Tribunal prolonged geographical restrictions in opposition to Tate, a former skilled kickboxer, stipulating he can’t go away the nation. Tate had requested that he have the ability to journey throughout the European Union with the prior approval of a choose.
After the Tate brothers’ arrest, they have been held for 3 months in police detention earlier than being moved to accommodate arrest. They have been later restricted to Bucharest Municipality and close by Ilfov County, however can now journey freely round Romania.
Additionally final month, the Tate brothers appeared on the Bucharest Court docket of Attraction in a separate case, after British authorities issued arrest warrants over allegations of sexual aggression in a UK case courting again to 2012-2015.
The appeals court docket granted the British request to extradite the the Tates to the U.Ok., however solely after authorized proceedings in Romania have concluded.