Story time.
circa 20 years ago, my monstrous ex got into “business” in Romania offering “overseas work placements”. This involved showing young Romanian women completely fictional job offer paperwork, getting them over here to Britbongistan, taking them from the airport not to the promised hotel but a “shared apartment”, relieving them of their passports and other possessions, and putting them on the game in the “shared apartment”, which remains the favoured way to run a brothel here.
Fairly quickly, he ended up owing money to his Romanian connections. It wasn’t a lot of money, two grand or so, so they only shot him in one knee when they terminated their business arrangement. I heard eventually that he manages to get around with a walking stick after a couple surgeries. Lives off benefits and low level scams now.
The real outcome for Tate depends on who in Romania he owes money to, and how much, now that he’s in no position to be making the repayments. The Romanian mafia don’t fuck around, and the Romanian coppers don’t get involved in strictly business matters. But he didn’t run a sex business in Romania without paying his dues to someone. If the cops have seized the cars, that’s his most easily liquidated asset gone, too.