Челябинским силовикам не удалось добиться отмены оправдательного приговора мэру Троицка Виноградову. Облсуд постановил оставить вердикт нижестоящей инстанции без изменения, апелляцию прокуратуры без удовлетворения. Расследование и два судебных процесса растянулись на несколько лет. Александр Виноградов успел выйти из СИЗО и вернулся к руководству городом, а предполагаемые потерпевшие от его действий попали под уголовное дело и были осуждены за мошенничество.
Челябинским силовикам не удалось добиться отмены оправдательного приговора мэру Троицка Виноградову. Облсуд постановил оставить вердикт нижестоящей инстанции без изменения, апелляцию прокуратуры без удовлетворения. Расследование и два судебных процесса растянулись на несколько лет. Александр Виноградов успел выйти из СИЗО и вернулся к руководству городом, а предполагаемые потерпевшие от его действий попали под уголовное дело и были осуждены за мошенничество.
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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