@ecksmc @th3j35t3r
A US jail wouldn't be safe at all. Too easy to pay off a guard to organize other inmates to attack him for a few snacks at the commissary. French prisons may be more civilized.
More likely there was already an agreement where he would give the French/Interpol access to information to prosecute child porn purveyors in exchange for a non-custodial sentence and maybe a new identity.
The trick is getting narcissistic Russian oligarchs to shut the fuck up.
He actually got arrested for refusing to give information on one user who is under investigation for fraud, sharing child porn and other charges - during that investigation police found out that user uses Telegram - Telegram refused to help by not handing over data - Telegram has created a kind of jurisdictional obstacle course for law enforcement that (it says) none of them have successfully navigated so far. From the FAQ again:
@AlphaCentauri @ecksmc
And the French ere well versed in providing new identities. See Légion Etrangère.