After Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov was arrested by French authorities over the weekend, more details have emerged that shed light on the reason for his apprehension.<\/p>\n
On July 8, a judicial investigation was opened against \u201ca person unnamed\u201d on charges related to complicity with various offenses committed using Durov\u2019s messaging app, including money laundering and dissemination of child poronography.<\/p>\n
Per a press release<\/a> from the court of Paris shared by Disclose.TV, the unidentified individual complicit with the possession and distribution of \u201cpornographic images of minors.\u201d The post Why Was Pavel Durov Arrested? Details Emerge<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov was arrested by French authorities over the weekend, more details have emerged that shed light on the reason for his apprehension. On July 8, a judicial investigation was opened against \u201ca person unnamed\u201d on charges related to complicity with various offenses committed using Durov\u2019s messaging app, including money […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt also accused the person of complicity in the sale of narcotics, making available hacking tools, orgaized fraud, money laundering, and for providing cryptology tools without prior declaration.
\n\u201cIt is within this procedural framework in which Pavel Durov was questioned by the investigators,\u201d stated a press release from the court on Monday, following Durov\u2019s Saturday arrest<\/a>.
\nDurov\u2019s arrest has incited fierce backlash<\/a> from the crypto community who consider his apprehension an attack on freedom of speech. Durov has suggested<\/a> before that he owns a substantial portion of his net worth in Bitcoin (BTC).
\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron responded to critics on Monday saying that Durov\u2019s arrest was \u201cin no way a political decision,\u201d and \u201ctook place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation.\u201d
\n\u201cFrance is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship,\u201d he said over Twitter<\/a>. \u201cIt will remain so.\u201d<\/p>\n