New documents uncovered by reporters show that Andrew and Tristan Tate were involved in a profit-sharing agreement with a casino company whose owners are now under investigation for creating a violent organized crime group.
Key Findings
- The Tate brothers had a profit-sharing agreement with a gambling firm owned by Mih?i?? and Sorin Doroftei, who are accused by prosecutors of leading a violent organized crime group centered around their Las Vegas casino brand. (The Dorofteis are still under investigation and the Las Vegas Group has denied any wrongdoing.)
- The agreement would see the two companies split the profits from at least six different Las Vegas casino branches.
- Las Vegas Casinos told reporters they had severed all ties with the Tates.
Outspoken misogynist and social media sensation Andrew Tate made many bombastic claims before his December 2022 arrest in Romania on human trafficking and rape charges.
One of the most striking was that he was working with unnamed Romanian gambling kingpins to operate casinos in the Eastern European country, where Tate has chosen to base himself because, he has said, it’s a place where “corruption is accessible to everybody.”
In multiple interviews, Tate claimed to have partnered up with some “brothers, mafia guys,” who owned “400 [gambling] locations from Estonia all the way down to the East of Europe,” and to have helped his new partners push competitors out of business.
But there was no evidence the self-styled “king of masculinity” actually had interests in any casinos –– much less 400 –– and Tate never publicly revealed the names of his business partners.
Now, reporters from RISE Project Romania, an OCCRP member center, have found evidence that Andrew Tate and his younger brother, Tristan, really did have a financial interest in at least six “Las Vegas” brand casinos along with two alleged organized crime figures known as the Doroftei brothers.
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