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Russian internet entrepreneur Pavel Durov has been charged with 12 counts of failing to cooperation with a French police investigation and complicity in a number of crimes including drug trafficking, distribution of child pornography and fraud, according to the French charge sheet released on August 26. Durov, founder and chairman of messaging service Telegram, has already been interrogated on the 12 charges in a French prison, according to the cybercrime department of the Paris prosecutor’s office. Durov was detained on August 24 at 20:00 local time after deplaning at the Le Bourget airport i…