Among the accusations against the founder detained in France and CEO of Messenger Telegram Pavel Durov – “Refusal to provide information to the authorities.”
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, in the list, published by the prosecutor of Paris, ENT BCCO, is a refusal to cooperate with the authorities, complicity in storage and distribution of pornographic images of minors, as well as fraud.
Becko noted that Durov was detained as part of the “X” investigation, which was started on July eight of a preliminary investigation conducted by employees of the organized crime department. The police continues the interrogation of Durov, 12 crimes are incriminated to the founder of telegrams.
The detention of the head of Telegram Pavel Durov – “This is by no means a political decision,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State noted that Durov was detained as part of a “ongoing judicial investigation”. “The decision remains for the judges,” Macron wrote in X.
Durov’s detention
According to Russian and French media reports, Durov was detained on August 24 for access to illegal content in telegrams. The detention of a famous entrepreneur caused a lot of disputes.
Telegram said that the company complies with the EU laws, and called the accusations against Durov “nonsense.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the embassy in Paris sent a note to the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to provide consular access to the detained founder of Messenger Telegram.
“The problem is that Pavel Durov has French citizenship. Accordingly, for Paris, for France, he is primarily a citizen of their country,” said Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian diplomatic mission.
The owner of X, the American billionaire Ilon Musk called for the release of Durov.
The French judicial authorities on Sunday, August 25, extended the term of detention of the 39-year-old founder of the Messenger Telegram for another 48 hours.
The founder of the popular social network VKontakte Pavel Durov left Russia in 2014.
Durov has citizenship of France, the Russian Federation, the UAE and St. Kits and Nevis. His fortune is estimated at almost $ 15 billion.
The number of active users of telegrams, one of the popular applications in the world to exchange instant messages and social networks, is 900 million people.