Looks like the French prosecutors decided to go whole hog with complicity in child sexual abuse, narcotics, and fraud charges as well as cryptology tool violations -- casting a wide net.
They must know criminal details that we do not know and do not have access to the private records of their investigation.
Criminal violations include complicity in selling child pornography and in drug trafficking, fraud, abetting organized crime transactions and refusing to share information or documents with investigators when required by law.
Durov's detention was extended until Monday night and can be prolonged until Wednesday evening before authorities must release or charge him, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
Durov is a citizen of Russia, France, the United Arab Emirates, and the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Regardless of whether he's guilty or found guilty in the courts...
good riddance. Yet, if there's no prosecution evidence for any of the above criminal violations...he should be released.
Also, I'm suspicious about the timing of the arrest because the U.S. recently gained the release of American prisoners from Russia in the biggest U.S./Russia prisoner swap exchange in post-Soviet history.
Thus, did France just do the rest of Europe and America a big favor by arresting (capturing) this billionaire Telegram CEO from Russia who was stupid enough to travel to France?
Now that he's arrested, could he then be used as a future prisoner swap to free other Americans or European citizens???
https://apnews.com/article/russia-gershkovich-whelan-prisoner-swap-354df585ad321ecdbea4c0f2c557f0aa
P.S. This guy has more passports/citizenships than a well-traveled secret agent. He reminds me of a U.S. military soldier I met recently at O'Hare airport USO services. That soldier had a stack of passports...seven deep when the customs agent asked to see his passports
"before" we passed through the customs line.
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