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| You're accused of kidnapping as well? | ||
| When they first put me in jail, the word kidnapping was used on the news all the time. | ||
| The official charges now say coercion. | ||
| So being nice to people. | ||
| That's what's in the charges. | ||
| I'm nice to people, and that's how I've kidnapped them, one way or another. | ||
| But you're not accused. | ||
| And I'm just speaking specifically of the accusations. | ||
| You're not accused of locking someone in your basement or physically holding someone captive. | ||
| This house is allegedly the crime headquarters of my criminal organization. | ||
| When you say that even some of your supporters have questions about your webcam business, what is that? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| So I'm glad you asked that because I'd actually like to clear this up. | ||
| Andrew is a Muslim and I'm a Christian. | ||
| In a previous life, me and my brother used to run a streaming company, essentially, where pretty girls would stream online and talk to dudes online. | ||
| You know, there was some noodlety involved. | ||
| And it was a studio, essentially. | ||
| The girls worked for my company. | ||
| They had contracts to work for my company. | ||
| They got paid very, very well. | ||
| And people are like, ah, they were involved in that business where they recruited women. | ||
| Is that what they're investigating for the human trafficking allegations? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| The human trafficking charges filed against me, because they called the women who used to work for me. | ||
| Yeah, great boss. | ||
| I made some money. | ||
| My life has moved on. | ||
| And they hung up the phone on the police. | ||
| The charges are that in 2021, I recruited friends of mine by brainwashing them to steal their TikTok money. | ||
| If the police could have found a link between anything illegal and any business I've run from my webcam studio to any company I've ever run, they would have put it in the case file. | ||
| It simply does not exist. | ||
| So that's not connected at all to that. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| The webcam studio was shut four and a half, five years before I allegedly started this kidnapping gang. | ||
| So they're not connected to you. | ||
| You do not run a web business now. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| And also, none of the alleged victims are girls who have ever worked at my streaming company in the past. | ||
| There's zero connection at all. | ||
| But I get why well-intentioned fans of mine will be like, oh, well, he was talking about this business he used to run. | ||
| Was he trafficking those people? | ||
| That's a very fair question. | ||
| It's a very fair question. | ||
| But there is no connection at all. | ||
| And the case file will eventually come out. | ||
| The charges and what I'm accused of will come out. | ||
| Is there any money that's been made in the case file? | ||
| One dollar from illicit activities, even from TikTok that reached my bank account. | ||
| Is that in the case file? | ||
| So you guys don't make money from TikTok, even though? | ||
| No, I mean, we have people who put us ourselves on TikTok to kind of spread our own message. | ||
| Do we directly or indirectly make money from promoting ourselves on TikTok? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| That's not human trafficking. | ||
| Did I traffic myself? | ||
| Is Andrew trafficking himself? | ||
| No, but we make no money from TikTok and we make no money from anyone streaming on TikTok. | ||
| And I certainly wouldn't need, I don't know how much TikTok influencers make, but I certainly wouldn't need to brainwash people to steal amounts of money like that. | ||
| You know, do they make $100 million? | ||
| All right, let's get into the brainwashing business. | ||
| Me and you, let's go. | ||
| There's money to be made. | ||
| But that's simply not the case, is it? | ||
| So to believe that these charges are true, you have to understand that I'm already a father. | ||
| I'm already a retired sportsman. | ||
| I'm already a public figure. | ||
| I'm very well known. | ||
| 1 million plus followers on Instagram. | ||
| The whole world knows who I am. | ||
| Now's the time to risk it all and start brainwashing and kidnapping people for money from TikTok. | ||
| That's what you have to believe my thought process was. | ||
| And I may seem unorthodox or unconventional to people who may speak to me, but I don't think I come across as insane. | ||
| And you'd have to be insane to do that. | ||
| It doesn't even make any sense. | ||
| You're accused of kidnapping as well? | ||
| Well, when they first put me in jail, the word kidnapping was used on the news all the time. | ||
| The official charges now say coercion. | ||
| So being nice to people. | ||
| That's what's in the charges. | ||
| I'm nice to people and that's how I've kidnapped them one way or another. | ||
| But you're not accused. | ||
| And I'm speaking specifically of the accusations. | ||
| You're not accused of locking someone in your basement or physically holding someone captive. | ||
| This house is allegedly the crime headquarters of my criminal organization. | ||
| If this TV were on, if you were to walk into this room and look at my TV, I have CCTV cameras all over the house. | ||
| That was the first thing the police took. | ||
| And when they took it, I said, thank God. | ||
| Guys, watch this and let me go. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| You have a year of footage, every angle of my house besides the bedrooms, the entrances, the exits, the gates in and out, everything that happens by the pool in this living room. | ||
| You find any illegal activity there, good, yeah, lock me up. | ||
| But the fact that nothing that they could put in the case file, the case file contains zero of my CCTV images, zero, not one. | ||
| So they took that, watched the whole year of my life and said, ah, this isn't relevant, and threw it out. | ||
| But the fact that that's absent of any crime, if I had a friend who sniffed cocaine on this table, that would be in the case file. | ||
| If a girl tried to leave once during a heated argument and I'd closed the door and done this on camera, that would be in the case file. | ||
| And you're sure there's no footage from within your house? | ||
| The police have it all. | ||
| I have it all backed up. | ||
| I might just release it to the whole world, but then people will know too much of my business. | ||
| Well, I could release the footage. | ||
| It'll be the world's most boring TV show. | ||
| It's people sitting around here talking, smoking cigars, having fun, watching TV, watching movies. | ||
| They saw all of this. | ||
| That CCTV evidence, whether they send me to jail or not, exonerates me. | ||
| Imagine you're a criminal running a drug smuggling ring, for example. | ||
| The last thing you do, one, is put cameras that record every move you make everywhere to record your criminal activity. | ||
| But two, if you were guilty of drug smuggling or whatever they accuse you of or innocent of drug smuggling, that camera footage would either condemn you or exonerate you. | ||
| And that's not included in my case file. | ||
| A whole year of CCTV from every single angle. | ||
| I'll show you the cameras afterwards. | ||
| You'll laugh. | ||
| You'll laugh. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| So you said you would never sue the government of Romania. | ||
| Never, ever. | ||
| But they need the money more than me. | ||
| But it's news organizations that have called you a human trafficker, implied that you're a pimp or a white slaver or whatever. | ||
| You know, you would sold human beings. | ||
| Yeah, there are a lot of people who have to be dealt with in a legal way. | ||
| I don't want anyone to misinterpret that as a threat. | ||
| But essentially, the answer is this. | ||
| I was asked by a friend, do you think you'll get justice? | ||
| And I said, well, you think if they drop this now and just say you're free to go, that's justice. | ||
| After what my family have suffered, after my daughter suffered, after me being locked up in a prison, after me being deprived of liberty in my house, the damage that's done to my business, my international reputation, my mother, these two women. | ||
| You think if they drop it now, that's justice? | ||
| No, God is the ultimate arbiter of justice, and he will make sure that I do get justice and I will have justice. | ||
| But this case file disappearing is just the beginning. | ||
| How is that just? | ||
| One year and a half, I've been labeled a human trafficker. | ||
| They've been calling me a human trafficker for a year and a half. | ||
| When you have a daughter who's two and a half, and she's banging on the door, screaming to go outside and play with the other kids, but you know you can't let her go outside because if she does, the other kids take their parents in. | ||
| The other parents take their kids in. | ||
| She has no friends. | ||
| I bought her a dog. | ||
| She's crying her eyes out. | ||
| She used to be able to play with the kids in the neighborhood. | ||
| Now she can't. | ||
| What about her? | ||
| Is it justice to drop this file now? | ||
| No, people will have to pay legally. | ||
| Don't cut this up and say I'm making threats to anyone. | ||
| People will have to pay and they will have to suffer the consequences of the legal system. | ||
| And I also believe that you can't do such an evil thing to people without suffering some type of retribution from the Almighty. | ||
| So good luck to them. | ||
| And I hope they can sleep at night because I wouldn't be able to. | ||
| You don't hear people say the news is full of lies. |