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