Andrew Tate’s appeal against a 30-day extension of his detention in Romania has been denied by a court, meaning the controversial social media influencer will remain in prison.

Tate, a British-US citizen, was appealing in Bucharest against a judge’s decision on 21 February to keep him in a Romanian prison for a further 30 days.

The former professional kickboxer and his brother Tristan are being investigated over allegations of sexual assault and exploitation.

They are also being detained on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking.

The pair were taken into custody on 29 December last year.

They were initially detained for 24 hours, which was then extended to 30 days. A further 30 days were added in January, and again last month.

Tristan’s bail appeal hearing is tomorrow.

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Romanian authorities said they had seized goods and money worth almost £3.25m from Tate’s villa, including luxury cars.

The 36-year-old has 5.3 million followers on Twitter and was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.

The former Big Brother contestant is believed to have lived in Romania since 2017.

Tate’s spokesperson said afterwards: “We are disappointed in this outcome as we had high hopes to see Andrew reunited with his family. His legal team will be appealing this decision within the 48hr time frame.”

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