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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, stories say
The Tycoon Herald > World > Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, stories say
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, stories say

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published August 25, 2024
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, stories say

Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, is pictured onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on Sept. 21, 2015, in San Francisco.

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Pavel Durov, the co-founder and chief government of the messaging service Telegram, was arrested and detained on Saturday, in accordance with French media stories.

The Paris prosecutor’s workplace advised NPR {that a} assertion concerning the matter will likely be issued on Monday.

Regulation enforcement brokers reportedly arrested Durov at Le Bourget Airport exterior of Paris, the place he was arriving on his personal jet from Azerbaijan, in accordance with a number of French press stories.

AFP reported that an arrest warrant had been issued for Durov because of an investigation into whether or not he has didn’t crack down on criminal activity together with drug trafficking, the promotion of terrorism and fraud on Telegram.

The French newspaper Le Monde reported that the probe is analyzing whether or not Durov has refused to cooperate with regulation enforcement over points together with cyberscams and the unfold of kid pornography on Telegram.

The Russian Embassy in France launched a press release saying it had requested French authorities for an evidence for Durov’s detention and requested that his rights be protected and consular entry be granted.

Durov, a 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire, is a twin citizen of France and the United Arab Emirates, the place he runs Telegram, the Dubai-based messaging service with almost 1 billion international customers.

He’s thought-about “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” for in 2007 founding VKontakte, Russian for “in touch,” a Fb copycat website that grew to become the nation’s hottest social community.

In 2013, Durov and his brother, Nikolai, launched Telegram. Pavel Durov fled Russia a yr later after his refusal at hand over information on Ukrainian customers of VK to Russian authorities.

When Telegram first began, cryptocurrency fanatics had been fast to embrace it, and the app has since risen to change into one of the vital fashionable messaging providers on the earth. It has emerged as a go-to place for unfiltered updates on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Telegram has a laissez-faire method to moderating content material, which has drawn concern from researchers, who’ve famous how misinformation, extremism and illicit exercise, like drug gross sales and little one pornography, usually goes unmoderated.

Some specialists have even suspected that Telegram might need hyperlinks to the Kremlin, which Durov referred to as “inaccurate” in an interview in March with the Monetary Occasions, the primary time the reclusive CEO has spoken to the press since 2017.

On Durov’s Instagram, he’s usually photographed bare-chested, exhibiting off his muscular physique in desert landscapes or posing in infinity swimming pools.

He’s commonly seen sporting all-black outfits in an obvious nod to the character Neo from the film The Matrix.

Content material on Telegram ricochets across the net when it’s shared to different social networks, the place it might probably usually be topic to the content material moderation guidelines of different platforms. However Durov has lengthy championed Telegram as an anything-goes service, with Durov’s supporters hailing him as a free speech hero.

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