French prosecutors released information on Monday about potential criminal charges that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov is being investigated in connection with after he was arrested late last week when a private jet he was on landed in the country from Azerbaijan.
France’s Ministry of Justice said in a statement that the investigation began in July following a preliminary inquiry initiated by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office into “person unnamed.”
Prosecutors listed 12 charges that they are investigating that appear to stem from Durov’s alleged refusal to moderate illicit content on the platform and his company’s lack of cooperation with law enforcement.
The charges included:
- Complicity – web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group
- Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or…
