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By Holmes Lybrand, Dalia Faheid, Hannah Rabinowitz, Alea Motwane

(CNN) - US Marshals arrested social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami Saturday on an extradition request from the United Kingdom following an investigation into sexual offenses reported by seven victims, according to the UK Crown Prosecution Service.

UK officials accused the brothers of abusing women in the East of England region, just north of London, between 2010 and 2017.

Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist with billions of views online, faces 42 charges, including rape, human trafficking, indecent images of a child and assault, according to the UK Crown Prosecution Service and Bedfordshire Police. Tristan Tate faces 17 charges, including sexual assault, rape and trafficking, officials said.

 Officers from our major crime unit have been working closely alongside the Crown Prosecution Service and both national and international law enforcement agencies as part of this complex investigation,  Bedfordshire Assistant Chief Constable Karena Thomas said.

The Department of Justice confirmed US Marshals arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate  pursuant to extradition proceedings,  adding the arrests  were made in accordance with the treaties and law enforcement agreements governing Justice Department extraditions. 

The brothers will appear in federal court in Miami next week, a law enforcement source said.

An attorney for the brothers said they are innocent and criticized the UK's move to seek extradition.

 There is a long-standing agreement between the UK and Romanian governments that the UK would not seek extradition while the Romanian proceedings are pending,  Joseph McBride said.  Those proceedings are ongoing right now. That agreement exists because no nation gets to trample the judicial sovereignty of another for political convenience. 

Romanian prosecutors previously accused the brothers of trafficking women across Romania, the United Kingdom and the US and sexually exploiting them. They have repeatedly rejected the allegations made against them in

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