Interim President Ilie Bolojan said on Friday that there was no pressure at the level of the Presidential Administration in the case of brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are under investigation in Romania and left the country on Thursday, bound for the United States.

„”There has been no pressure on the Presidential Administration, there has been no contact on this issue,” Bolojan told a press conference held at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.

Moreover, the interim president said that „every institution (….) must work under normal conditions, must do its duty and each has an institutional responsibility for what it does”.

„No matter how dedicated you are, no matter how much you want to solve all the problems, to ensure the proper functioning of all institutions, it is impossible to do this in this short period of time. From my point of view, every institution, including those in the judicial system, from the prosecutor’s offices, from the courts, from the Constitutional Court, must work under normal conditions, must do its duty and each has institutional responsibility for what it does. The more each of these institutions, from the president to the smallest institution in this country, works better and respects the people, the more credible we will be and the more we will regain Romanians’ trust in institutions and in the democratic system,” Ilie Bolojan said.

Andrew Tate arrived with his brother Tristan on Thursday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Romania, shortly after Romanian prosecutors lifted the travel ban related to the criminal charges against the former. The Tate brothers are under criminal investigation in Romania on charges of constituting an organized criminal group, human trafficking, child trafficking, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering, Reuters reports, adding that the two have denied all the charges.

AGERPRES