Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.

Tate was detained alongside his brother Tristan following a police raid on his house the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

A spokesperson for the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) told the BBC that prosecutors had applied to hold the influencer at a “detention centre” for an additional 30 days.

Tate rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.

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