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French authorities on Tuesday indicted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with six charges and released him from custody on a €5 million bail.

Durov faces six charges including “complicity in the offences of making available without legitimate reason a program or data designed for… organized gang distribution of images of minors presenting child pornography, drug trafficking”, “complicity in web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group” and “refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a press release dated Wednesday.

Durov is forbidden from leaving and must check in at a police station twice a week.

Russian-born tech tycoon Durov was detained at Paris’ Le Bourget airport on Saturday night, as part of a sprawling inquiry into criminal activity on the messaging platform.

Telegram, a messaging app based in Dubai, has long been scrutinized over accusations of rampant fraud, drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism promotion and cyber-bullying on the platform.

After Durov’s arrest, Telegram pushed back strongly against any suggestion of wrongdoing in an online statement Sunday, saying it abides by all EU laws and that Durov “has nothing to hide.”

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Hmmm!

Telegram, my favourite messaging app.

Great news to all telegram crypto enthusist.
Free speech issa goal.

Check my signature.

Telegram is one of the best messaging apps I know and they don't expect him to disclose information of it's s.

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#FREEDUROV.
Durovs telegram don benefit Nigerians all tinubu yeye palliatives.
just on Monday here that DOGS got listed,person don make cool 170k. And lots of promising projects waiting to get listed this q3 and q4.

God punish macron wey go marry woman wey reach to born him mama

Ok

Ok someone should make me understand how this thing works, he built a platform for people to use, and some chose to use it in a bad way, how is that his crime to answer to?
Why not go after the main culprits?

COMRADES, geo politics is somehow dirty, is he the reason why Macron's party performed so poorly in the last French Assembly election?

Or is Meta behind this arrest?

The mister Gambryan wey we hold for here nko? Dem no go release person papa?

I love telegram, US, and Russia tried to take over the amazing app but the guy strong

Power Is Power!! Damn

Melagros:
COMRADES, geo politics is somehow dirty

Somehow? It's dirtier than Tinubu"s boxers (If he have one)

Sumetime:
So they've made his prison

?

Good one.. continue to teach Putin political lessons.

internet space competition.

Deep state wants to control everything but this one go hard them

Ok. It is well.

...so they want to prosecute him because bad people are using his platform for criminal activities?

Ok

Emeskhalifa:
Ok someone should make me understand how this thing works, he built a platform for people to use, and some chose to use it in a bad way, how is that his crime to answer to?
Why not go after the main culprits?

That's not what is going on. He was given an order to censor certain news on his platform, and he refused. Marcon has given him a directive now to move telegram to . This is all for news censorship, like they did to Julian Assange.

Run away and pay d 5 million bail..... E better 20 yrs for jail oh

All these charges against him. Haba!

At the end he will be vindicated from the clueless charges against him. He’s been detained cos’ his media platform freedom of expression

U see the Nigerian basta*ds won't have problem with this but will be quick to criticise their own govt if similar things happen on Nigerian soil.
Unfortunate lots

Western hypocrisy on steroid. Once you create something that becomes globally successful and you’re not from US or their European puppets, they do everything to bring you down. CZ’s major crime still remains his Chinese ancestry while Durov’s crime is his Russian ancestry.

Telegram, where slam my the group with 160k subscribers

Kai, make e pay o

You can't reduce something that is already big, if you don't let them control you you suddenly become a criminal that deserves prosecution, they think say na everybody they fit put on a leash like dog.