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:
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Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups
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Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations
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Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors
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Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors
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Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics
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Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks
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Complicity - Organized fraud
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Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years
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Money laundering
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Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration
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Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration
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Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
His mistake was thinking a French citizenship would save him from Russia. I doubt they would be bold enough to arrest a non-citizen, let alone Musk.
Except Russian government threatened his family took his first company VK when he wouldn't give up the students protesting against Putin. He publicly posted a "fuck you no" on the site and had to eventually flee Russia.
he became an inconvenient asset.