English translation of the French press release regarding Telegram CEO Pavel Durov:
Founder and leader of the instant messaging and platform TELEGRAM, Pavel DUROV, was arrested and taken into custody on Saturday, August 24, 2024, at 8:00 PM, in Le Bourget.
This action is part of a judicial investigation opened on July 8, 2024, following a preliminary investigation initiated by Section J3 (Cybercrime – JUNALCO) of the Paris Prosecutor's Office.
This judicial investigation was opened against an unnamed person for the following charges:
- Complicity - Operating an online platform to facilitate illicit transactions in an organized group,
- Refusal to provide necessary information or documents requested by authorized authorities for the execution and exploitation of interceptions authorized by law,
- Complicity - Possession of images of minors with a pedo-pornographic nature,
- Complicity - Distribution, offering, or making available in an organized group, images of minors with a pornographic nature,
- Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession, offering, or sale of narcotic products,
- Complicity - Offering, selling, or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, instruments, programs, or data designed or adapted to damage and access the functioning of an automated data processing system,
- Complicity – Organized fraud,
- Criminal conspiracy to commit a crime or offense punishable by at least 5 years of imprisonment,
- Money laundering of crimes or offenses in an organized group,
- Providing cryptology services aimed at ensuring confidentiality without proper declaration,
- Providing a cryptology means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration,
- Importing a cryptology means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration.
The investigating magistrates in charge of this judicial investigation have also assigned the Center for the Fight Against Digital Crime (C3N) and the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF) to continue the investigations.
In this procedural context, Pavel DUROV is being questioned by investigators. His custody was extended on August 25, 2024, by an investigating judge and can last up to 96 hours (until August 28, 2024) due to the procedure applicable to the offenses related to organized crime as mentioned above.
Original press release: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf
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