Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says that he has traveled from France to Dubai, even as the French authorities continue to investigate criminal activity on his messaging app.

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, said Monday he is back home in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, seven months after his arrest in France over charges the social messaging app was used for criminal activity.

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.