Early on Thursday a private jet monitored by the BBC left Bucharest international airport and according to Flightradar flew over the Atlantic Ocean toward Florida. The plane landed shortly before 17:30 CET at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. A Tate brothers media representative confirmed to the BBC that the two were on board.
Before their arrival in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis said his state had had “no involvement” in the decision of the Tate brothers to come.
“Florida is not a place where you are welcome with that type of conduct,” said DeSantis, who claimed to have learned of the Tate brothers’ movements via media reports. He added that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier may examine whether the state has any jurisdiction “to deal with this.”
DIICOT said they had accepted a request from the Tate brothers to be allowed to leave Romania, but insisted the two men are still under investigation and are under “judicial control,” meaning they must return to Romania in March, the agency said.
The decision was confirmed by Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who said the United States had applied no pressure to allow the brothers to leave.
Earlier press reports claimed that U.S. officials had raised the case with the Romanian government. Although Romania’s foreign minister confirmed that the matter had been discussed with Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell, he denied the American side had pressured Romania to lift the restrictions on Andrew Tate.
This article has been updated.