Charges against Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov:
- Complicity – web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in an organized group,
- Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,
- Complicity – possessing pornographic images of minors,
- Complicity – distributing, offering, or making available pornographic images of minors in an organized group,
- Complicity – acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering, or selling narcotic substances,
- Complicity – offering, selling, or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs, or data designed for or adapted to get access to and damage the operation of an automated data processing system,
- Complicity – organized fraud,
- Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment,
- Laundering of the proceeds derived from an organized group’s offences and crimes,
- Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without a certified declaration,
- Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,
- Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
The custody period was extended until the 25th of August 2024 by an investigative magistrate and can last up to 96 hours (that being the 28th of August 2024), given the applicable procedure for organized crime offences, as referred to above.
