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He's being held on charges relating to sex trafficking and exploiting women into performing sex acts on cam sites, and related organised crime charges (probably money laundering and fraud).

He hasn't been formally charged in court because they are still gathering evidence.

That does not mean there aren't charges. The charges he's being held on are those above, there's no mystery, this is publicly available information.

They're being held while the charges are investigated because they are considered a high risk of leaving the country if they're released. This is NOT all that unusual when someone is a flight risk, or a risk of destroying evidence.

The idea that this is a grand political conspiracy is mad. He's a sad reddit Redpill fraudster who believed his own hype too much and flew too close to the sun by bragging about his crimes all over the Internet. How on earth is he anything like Julian Assange? Can you name ONE secret that he's revealed to the world that hadnt been on Reddit forums already for years? Just... One? Do you believe that all of his "matrix" talk was something new?