No espionage charges. He is sitting in jail rather than compromising his users. If they had access otherwise, they wouldn't need to go to such extremes.

This is absolutely the test case for doing the same to Musk.

Per Visegrad: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1828113086714151114

France releases the 12 charges against Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.

The charges:

1. Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups

2. Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations

3. Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors

4. Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors

5. Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics

6. Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks

7. Complicity - Organized fraud

8. Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years

9. Money laundering

10. Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration

11. Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration

12. Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.