Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Reportedly Arrested at Paris Airport

Published on August 25, 2024

Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of the messaging and social media platform Telegram, was arrested at an airport in Paris, according to French media reports published Saturday. He was arrested at around 8 p.m. local time at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by French police after he flew in from Azerbaijan, French news channel TF1 Info reported, citing police sources. BFM, another French outlet, and TF1 reported that Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allowing possible criminality due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police....

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