Durov was released under judicial supervision with an obligation to pay bail in the amount of five million euros, and he was banned from leaving France.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s adventure in France continues. He was charged and released under judicial supervision with bail of five million euros. He must appear at the police station twice a week. Durov was forbidden to leave France.
Accusations
Durov was charged with committing the following crimes:
– conspiracy to manage an online platform to enable illegal transactions to be carried out as part of an organized group (carrying up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand euros, the prosecutor’s office notes);
– refusal to provide information to requests from authorized bodies;
– complicity in the distribution of hacker programs, distribution of pornographic images of minors by an organized group, distribution of drugs, as well as complicity in fraud by an organized group;
– money laundering resulting from the actions of an organized criminal group;
– provision of cryptographic services aimed at ensuring confidentiality, without mandatory declaration;
– illegal provision and importation of cryptography tools.
A press release from the Paris prosecutor’s office said that Telegram is a messenger created in 2013 that has been involved in several cases related to various crimes, including cases of child sexual abuse. . The prosecutor’s office noted that the investigation began after the French authorities noticed that Telegram almost did not respond to judicial requests, which was also pointed out by representatives of other European countries, for example, Belgium. A preliminary investigation began in February 2024 under the direction of the Paris prosecutor’s office, and the judicial investigation began on July 8.
Family Relations
According to media reports, in Paris, in addition to the Telegram case, Durov is being investigated for violence against his son, who was born in 2017. Russian media, citing sources, reported that the case of -child abuse is not related to Durov’s detention; Durova’s mother of three children, Irina Bolgar, filed a lawsuit in Switzerland against a businessman, accusing him of violence against a child.
According to a representative of the Geneva court, Durov used violence against his youngest child, who was born in 2017. We are talking about five incidents that occurred between 2021 and 2022, which, according to Forbes, were lead to injuries (including a concussion) and sleep disturbance in the child. The evidence included transcripts of messages between Bolgar and Durov and a medical certificate dated April 2023 confirming that the child continued to suffer from anxiety and had sleep problems due to the violence.
Irina Bolgar’s lawyer confirmed her participation in the lawsuit, but refused to disclose details. Bolgar and the children are not named in the lawsuit under Swiss law, but it provides details that allow Durov to be identified, Forbes said.
Bolgar said that Durov stopped seeing their children in September 2022, and then the alimony payments stopped. In June 2024, the mother of Durova’s children, according to her lawyer, filed a civil case for alimony, but there has been no decision on this yet.
In addition, in April 2023, Bolgar also filed a lawsuit requesting sole custody of the children. In May, the court suspended Durov’s parental rights in relation to his children. He did not dispute this decision, Forbes wrote.
Source: korrespondent
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