Police can seize more than £2m from Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay tax on £21m of revenue from their online businesses, a court has ruled.
Devon and Cornwall Police had sought to seize the funds, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the brothers and a third person, referred to as J.
The chief magistrate at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said what appeared to be a “complex financial matrix” was actually a “straightforward cheat of the revenue”.
The controversial influencers are currently in Romania, where they are facing charges of human trafficking and rape.
