Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France

[arista]

[Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and
chief executive of the Telegram messaging app,
was arrested at the Bourget airport outside
Paris on Saturday evening,
TF1 TV said, citing an unnamed source.

Durov was travelling aboard his private jet,
TF1 said on its website, adding he had been
targeted by an arrest warrant in France.

The 39-year-old is understood to have
been travelling from Azerbaijan and
was arrested at about 8pm
local time (6pm GMT).

Durov was expected to appear in court on Sunday.

The Russia-born entrepreneur lives
in Dubai, where Telegram is based,
and holds dual citizenship of France
and the United Arab Emirates.

Durov, who is estimated by Forbes
to have a fortune of $15.5bn (£12bn),
left Russia in 2014 after he refused to
comply with demands to shut down
opposition communities on his
VK social media platform, which he sold.

Telegram did not immediately respond
to a Reuters request for comment.

Russia’s embassy in France is taking
“immediate steps” to clarify the situation.

Citing a representative from the
Russian embassy in France,
TASS reported there had been
no appeal from Durov’s team to
the embassy, but that it was proactively
taking “immediate” steps.

Durov and his brother Nikolai founded
the messaging app in 2013 and it has
about 900 million active users.]


https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport

[arista]

The CEO is Refusing to join Child Protection Services.

He agress to Montitor posts

Still under arrest in Paris.

BBCnewsHD update.

[bots]

he is not allowed to leave the country. I think we need more details on this. Is it related to organised crime? That's the only reason i think telegram differs from X or other platforms

[arista]

[Telegram boss banned from leaving France in criminal probe]

[Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed
under formal investigation in France as part
of a probe into organised crime on the
messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.

Mr Durov, 39, has not been remanded in custody,
but placed under judicial supervision,
and has to pay a €5m (£4.2m; $5.6m) deposit.

The Russian-born billionaire, who is also a
French national, also has to show up
at a French police station twice a week
and is not allowed to leave French territory.

Mr Durov was first detained upon arrival
at Le Bourget airport north of Paris last Saturday
under a warrant for offences related to the app.]


[In Wednesday's statement,
the Paris prosecutors said
Mr Durov was put under formal investigation
over alleged offences that included:

Complicity in the administration of an
online platform to enable illicit transactions
by an organised gang

Refusal to communicate with authorities

Complicity in organised criminal distribution
of sexual images of children

In France, being put under formal investigation
does not imply guilt or necessarily
result in a trial - but it indicates that judges
consider there is enough of a case to proceed
with an investigation.

Mr Durov has so far made no public comments
on the latest developments.

His lawyer, David-Olivier Kaminski,
said Telegram complied in every respect
with European digital regulations
and was moderated to the same standards
as other social networks.

It was "absurd" to suggest his client
could be involved "in criminal acts that
don't concern him either directly
or indirectly", he added.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c985ppy0znyo

[Nicky91]

good, another vile russian arrested

[Beso]

Why not arrest those distributing the cp. Seems like the EU lefties are targeting the social media moguls because them being active diminishes the governments control over people.