Telegram Founder Faces Justice: Charged With Multiple Crimes 

United States: Pavel Durov, who started the messaging app Telegram, was charged in France for not stopping illegal activities on his app. He can’t leave the country while facing these charges. 

 This is unusual because it’s rare for top tech leaders to be held responsible for what people do on their apps. This case is making people talk more about what tech companies should do to keep online conversations safe and private. 

Telegram Founder Faces Serious Accusations and Bail 

As reported by nytimes.com, Mr. Durov who is 39 years of age was arrested by the French police on Saturday while he was in transit from Azerbaijan. He was charged on Wednesday with an accusation that is usually a qualifying case for complicity for managing an online platform for an organized group for the purpose of effectuating unlawful activities as well as unlawful transactions, which attracts a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment. Telegram Founder Faces French Justice: Charged With Multiple Crimes 

Serious Allegations and Potential Penalties 

He was also accused of being an accomplice to other crimes like being involved in the dissemination of the content related to the sexual abuse of children, drug trafficking and fraud as well as other offences and failure to report to the police. 

According to the words of Laure Beccuau – the Paris prosecutor, Mr. Durov was obliged to pay 5 million euros, which is nearly 5 dollars, as bail. 5 million. He was released from custody but has to report in police station twice a week. 

Telegram has been linked to multiple criminal cases in France that involves child sexual abuse, drug trafficking, and online hate crimes but response from the platform has been “near-total absence of cooperation request from law enforcement,” Ms. Beccuau stated. 

Telegram’s Lack of Cooperation and Broader Implications 

Similar evidence has been observed in other regions of France and in legal systems of Belgium and other European countries, she said, which is why the organized crime prosecutors initiated the investigation in February together with the “potential criminal responsibility of the executives of this messaging platform. ” 

Mr. Durov’s case has raised concern over debates on the freedom of speech on the internet and the roles played by the owners of social media platforms as they seek to control freedom of speech online. EU governments are rising up for tech companies to regulate content by child safety, terrorism, fake news and other undesirable materials.