Devon and Cornwall Police made a legal bid to seize the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tates and a woman identified only as J. In his judgment handed down at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said what appeared to be a “complex financial matrix” was actually a “straightforward cheat of the revenue”. In his written ruling, the chief magistrate said: “I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that they have engaged in long-standing, deliberate conduct in order to evade their tax.
” He continued: “In my view, one need only focus on the inescapable evidential picture to determine the case. “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 paid any tax. “That, I am satisfied, was precisely the intention of (the Tate brothers) and is unequivocally founded on the evidence before me.
” Andrew Tate said in a statement that the ruling “is not justice” and claimed it was a “co-ordinated attack”. Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate (Image: Vadim Ghirda/AP/PA) The statement said: “First, they labelled me a human trafficker, yet they couldn’t find a single woman to stand against me. “When that narrative crumbled, they turned to outright theft — freezing .
