Pavel Durov’s criminal case in France will not go to trial for at least a year – Wired – Meduza

According to the reports, the criminal case of the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov in France will not go to trial for a year or more. Maylis de Roeck, a spokesman for the French prosecutor’s office, said Cabling which is still too early to discuss “any type of liquidation agreement”, more than five months from the arrest of Durav in Paris. “For now,” Wired writes, “Durov is caught in France, and his company seems to be in a kind of limbo, hoping to find out if a leader who has positioned himself as irreplaceable will need to be replaced.”

De Roeck told Wired that officials decided to act against the founder of Telegram after realizing that the breach of the social network with police requests had “hindered” 2,460 cases between 2013 and 2024 in different departments. Before the arrest of Durav in August 2024, French prosecutors had investigated him for months after the alleged telegram fault and block the illegal activity, which according to France included fraud, drug trafficking, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Organized crime and terrorism.

Yulia Conley, who worked as the first official of Telegram’s external and government relations, told Wired that “Telegram’s” shortage of human capital in this very important domain of content moderation could be the main reason why it occurred The current escalation “.

Durov was released on bail for 5 million euros ($ 5.2 million) a few days after his arrest. It remains in Paris and must inform the police regularly. In December 2024, he told the French authorities that Telegram has actively cooperated with the Police, providing state officials around 10,000 users around.