(ANSA-AFP) - BUCHAREST, MAR 22 - Self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate on Friday returned to Romania, where he is facing rape and human trafficking charges, after a trip to the US. The British-American figurehead of the online masculinist movement travelled to Florida, together with his brother, last month, marking the first time he had been out of the eastern European country since his 2022 arrest. "We're here to clear our names and exonerate ourselves," Tate told reporters, flanked by his brother, outside their residence on the outskirts of Bucharest. Earlier Tate posted on X that he was "spending 185,000 dollars on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper in Romania". Romanian prosecutors allege that Tate, 38, and his brother Tristan, 36, and two women set up a criminal organisation in Romania in early 2021 and sexually exploited several victims. Under judicial supervision, the Tates need to report to authorities on March 24, a no-show potentially leading to "preventive arrest", according to Romanian authorities. Florida's attorney general James Uthmeier said earlier this month that a criminal investigation had been opened into the Tates. They have "publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world", said Uthmeier. In a separate civil case in the United Kingdom, four British women have accused Andrew Tate of rape and coercive control. (ANSA-AFP).