Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has returned home to Dubai, he said Monday, seven months after being arrested in France over charges that the platform was being used for criminal activity. “I’ve returned to Dubai after spending several months in France due to an investigation related to the activity of criminals on Telegram.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said Monday that he has travelled from France to Dubai as French authorities continue to investigate criminal activity on his messaging app. Durov revealed his whereabouts in a post on his Telegram channel.

Telegram’s billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov is in the United Arab Emirates, where he is a citizen, after France temporarily loosened the conditions imposed on him as part of a criminal probe related to his messaging app.