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Online influencer Andrew Tate said that the ruling ‘is not justice’ and claimed it was a ‘coordinated attack on anyone who dares challenge the system.’
A judge has ruled that Devon and Cornwall Police can seize nearly £2.7 million from frozen bank accounts belonging to influencer Andrew Tate and his brother over alleged failure to pay taxes on £21 million in earnings from their online businesses.
The police force had made a bid to seize the assets from seven bank accounts belonging to Emory Andrew Tate, 37, Tristan Tate, 36, and a woman identified only as J, totalling £2,683,345.88, according to court documents.
Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring said in his judgment handed down on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court that he was satisfied that the brothers had engaged in “long-standing, deliberate conduct in order to evade their tax.”
The chief magistrate continued: “The money generated by the various business were online transactions which attracted VAT in the UK and / or corporation tax to the companies and / or income tax by the respondents, and they had not so much as registered to pay or account for tax, whether personal or otherwise, let alone…