He gets more views on social media than Rihanna. “He’s one of the most Googled people on the internet. Tate sounded like another self-obsessed attention screecher on social media. I usually cover wars, international crises, old-school corruption. I’d never heard of Tate until last summer.
The four are suspected of being part of a human trafficking group, although they say they are innocent. Two Romanian women, Georgiana Naghel, and a former police officer called Alexandra Luana Radu, were also detained.
Top G and his younger brother, 34-year-old Tristan, were led away in handcuffs. Officers wearing balaclavas stormed Tate’s compound by cover of night, and say they found guns, knives and large sums of cash. His arrest on 29 December by armed members of Romania’s anti-corruption unit – the ones who arrest gangsters – was over allegations of people trafficking and rape.