[skeledrew]

The practical effect of locking up "the people responsible" though (if there's any actual guilt), at least in this case, would deprive people of the product: Durov is the key person for basically all things re Telegram, so his not being available to take care of said things would lead to its eventual death.

[mrtksn]

Maybe, maybe not? If it happens that Durov ends in prison for a long time I imagine that there would be interest to take over the product since its actually a good and successful one.

[skeledrew]

Take it over how when it's very possible that only Durov has access to some of the more important keys?