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Andrew is to his right in sunglasses and an open necked shirt.)    Image source,  Reuters  Image caption,  Tristan and Andrew Tate pictured in April 2026 at Kaseya Center, Miami       By Dan Sales     Published 5 September 2026           Romanian prosecutors have officially indicted social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate with a range of trafficking and sex offences.  They are accused of making more than $1.2m (£888,000) by coercing a girl to perform sex acts on video chats, according to the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). Andrew, 39, is charged with trafficking minors, money laundering and having sex with a minor. Tristan, 38, is charged with complicity in trafficking in minors and money laundering. The Tates - currently in a Miami jail fighting extradition to the UK over separate charges - deny all the allegations.     (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjej0j0lzkno) Will the Tate brothers be extradited from the US to the UK?       Published 21 July             The brothers - former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship - have been under criminal investigation in Romania since December 2022.  They have been mainly based there since 2017, drawing a large social media audience - many of them young men - through misogynistic messages and images of a luxury lifestyle. Romanian prosecutors described a case as centring on a vulnerable female who was 15 at the time of the alleged offence, in information released on Friday. She is alleged to have been recruited by Andrew and housed in a building in Luton, Bedfordshire, so he could sexually exploit her. Tristan is alleged to have been an accessory, prosecutors say, using physical aggression to coerce the victim. DIICOT investigators allege Andrew controlled her through surveillance and physical aggression, and coerced her to perform sex acts on video chats for his financial gain. Andrew is also accused of moving her to Romania to carry on exploiting her in two of his homes. He is separately charged with having sex with a minor, who was 15, in Romania. Prosecutors have also requested four of the brothers' luxury cars worth £710,000 be confiscated. They believe money was laundered through their purchase. The two brothers were previously indicted in Romania on trafficking charges, but in 2024 an appeals court in Bucharest sent the case back to prosecutors after deeming some evidence inadmissible. It is not yet clear if DIICOT will seek their extradition from the US and the indictment has to be examined by a judge before any trial can begin.  The Tates have denied all the allegations and say their online personas are not their real personalities. Their lawyer in Romania, Eugen Constantin Vidineac, said: "Today's decision by DIICOT does not determine guilt and it should not be presented as though it does. It represents the prosecution's latest attempt to bring this case before a court following the failure of its previous indictment to proceed to trial. "The history of these proceedings matters. The previous indictment was subjected to judicial scrutiny and the court identified significant irregularities which prevented the case from moving forward to trial. "DIICOT has now chosen to file a new indictment. We will examine every aspect of it with the same level of scrutiny and we will challenge any evidential, procedural or legal deficiencies through the appropriate judicial process. "Our clients continue to reject the allegations against them. They have the right to the presumption of innocence, the right to properly examine the evidence relied upon against them and the right to mount an effective defence." Correction 5 September: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Tate brothers were charged with further offences. The article has been updated to make clear they have been officially indicted with offences of which they had already been accused. It has also been updated to reflect that Andrew, not Tristan, was alleged to have recruited the 15-year-old.      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