An adult webcam platform paid $2.6m into divisive influencer Tristan Tate’s bank account, according to leaked documents.
Paxum Bank, favored by the porn industry, processed the younger Tate’s transactions until shortly before he and his brother Andrew Tate were charged with rape and human trafficking, documents leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show.
The brothers are currently awaiting trial in Romania on charges of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women. They have denied all charges. No date has been set for a trial and the brothers are banned from leaving Romania.
Britain is also reportedly seeking their extradition due to allegations of “sexual aggression.”
On Friday, a Bucharest court denied Andrew Tate’s appeal to Romania and extended restrictions for another 60 days. His lawyers will appeal.
In another development, ICIJ said they had obtained documents including a statement for Tristan Tate’s Caribbean-based Paxum Bank account from 2017 to 2024. It shows about $2.6 million in payments “for services provided” by MFCXY Inc., a company that hosts an adult webcam service, as well as from other adult content platforms such as OnlyFans.
The leaked records, which also contain 183 wire transfers, show that Tate transferred funds from his Paxum account into other bank accounts he owned in Romania and the U.K. over the same period.
It is unclear if there is any connection between Tate’s transactions analyzed by ICIJ and the Romanian case or British investigation.
Paxum, headquartered in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, has developed a niche as a bank to the pornography and adult services industries, generally shunned by mainstream banks due to human trafficking and exploitation risks.
Both Tate brothers have acknowledged operating a webcam business but claim that the women performing on camera voluntarily split earnings with them. Andrew Tate claimed he earned $600,000 a month “during the height of his webcam business which employed 75 women across four countries,” according to The Mirror.
Romanian prosecutors allege the Tate brothers and their associates exploited seven victims using “acts of violence and psychological coercion” to force them into “pornographic acts” on camera. The brothers deny the allegations.
Andrew Tate has said he and his brother considered their webcam business to be legitimate, according to media reports.
Andrew and Tristan Tate were first arrested in December 2022. They were indicted together with two Romanian women on charges of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women. They have denied the allegations.
This week the former kick boxer said outside court: “It’s up to the judge, the judge will decide what the judge will decide, I remain rich and famous — nothing matters.”
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