Official charges released against Telegram founder Pavel Durov after his arrest in France.

Durov is facing up to 20 years in prison.

• 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 documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,

• Complicity – possessing pornographic images of minors,

• Complicity – distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group,

• Complicity – acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances,

• Complicity – offering, selling or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs or data designed for or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system,

• Complicity – organized fraud,

• Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment

• Laundering of the proceeds derived from organized group’s offences and crimes,

• Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration,

• Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,

• Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. – Source

Reuters