French Court Releases Durov From Police Custody but Legal Proceedings Continue
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Photo: X/ @Geopolitik_2030
August 28, 2024 Hour: 1:12 pm
His police detention lasted four days, the maximum authorized by the French justice system.
On Wednesday, Pavel Durov, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Telegram who was arrested on Saturday near Paris, was brought before the investigating judges at the Paris court at around 3 p.m.
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The Paris judges decided to end his police custody, although the legal proceedings against him by the French Prosecutor’s Office continue.
On Saturday afternoon, accompanied by his bodyguard and his assistant, the Russian-born billionaire was arrested at the Bourget terminal, as he was getting off a plane from Baku, Azerbaijan, under a French search warrant. His police detention lasted four days, the maximum authorized by the French justice.
The 39-year-old Franco-Russian was arrested on suspicion of failing to act against the dissemination of criminal or delinquent content on Telegram, which has more than 900 million users.
More specifically, the Paris prosecutor’s office has charged him with 12 offences, including criminal association to commit a crime or misdemeanour punishable by at least five years in prison, laundering crimes or misdemeanours by an organised gang, complicity in the possession of the image of a minor in the nature of child pornography, and the acquisition, transport, detention, offering or transfer of narcotics, as recalled by the French outlet TF1info.
teleSUR/ JF Source: RF1info – RT
