Durov was detained in a case in which 12 are the prosecution. What maximum punishments can threaten these articles?

On August 26, the France prosecutor’s office officially confirmed information about the detention of the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov. The department for the first time disclosed some details of the criminal investigation, the entrepreneur became the defendant: it has been conducted from July 8 by the Department for Combating Cybercrift in relation to unidentified persons at once under 12 corpus delicti. Medusa studied what maximum sanctions in French legislation are provided for violating each of the articles mentioned by the prosecutor’s office (an important reservation-we still do not know whether Durov’s accusations were brought specifically to all these articles or only in terms of them).

• Complicity in the administration of online platforms to ensure the possibility of illegal transactions as part of an organized group

The maximum punishment is 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of 500 thousand euros (it is under this article that France already investigates several cases regarding the administration of telegram channels with phishing links and pornographic content with the participation of minors).

• Refusal to provide information at the request of authorized bodies

The maximum punishment is two years of imprisonment and a fine of 30 thousand euros.

• Complicity in storing images of minor pornographic nature

The maximum punishment is five years in prison and a fine of 75 thousand euros.

• Complicity in the distribution of images of minor pornographic nature by an organized group

The maximum punishment is 10 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand euros.

• Complicity in drug distribution

The maximum punishment is 10 years in prison and a fine of 7.5 million euros.

• Complicity in the spread of hacker programs

The maximum punishment is five years in prison and a fine of 150 thousand euros (increases to 10 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand euros, if the crime is committed by an organized group).

• Complicity in fraud, committed by an organized group

The maximum punishment is 10 years in prison and a fine of one million euros.

• The creation of an organized group with the aim of committing crimes punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of at least five years

The maximum punishment depends on what kind of crime it will be discussed in the charges. It can make both five years of imprisonment and 75 thousand euros of the fine, and 10 years and 150 thousand fine.

• Laundering of money received as a result of the action of an organized criminal group

The maximum punishment is 10 years in prison and a fine of 750 thousand euros.

• Provision of cryptographic services aimed at ensuring confidentiality, without compulsory declaration
• Illegal provision of cryptography funds
• Illegal import of cryptography

The maximum punishment is two years of imprisonment and a fine of 30 thousand euros.

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