Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been formally charged by French prosecutors and is barred from leaving the nation amid their investigation into the Russian billionaire. Durov was formally charged Wednesday with “complicity in distributing youngster pornography, unlawful medicine and hacking software program” on the messaging app he based, in addition to “refusing to cooperate with investigations into criminal activity on the Telegram,” The Wall Road Journal .
Durov, who was arrested exterior of Paris on Saturday, was launched from police custody after paying €5 million in bail. He’s required to remain in France “beneath court docket monitoring” and examine in at a police station twice every week whereas the investigation performs out. That would take months or probably years, as The WSJ factors out.
Meaning Durov, who is thought for regularly and dealing from different international locations, might be caught in France for the foreseeable future until the costs in opposition to him are dropped. In an earlier , Telegram known as the costs in opposition to its founder “absurd” and mentioned that he shouldn’t be answerable for the actions of his app’s customers.
