Who Is Pavel Durov and What Are the Allegations Against Telegram?

Published on August 27, 2024

The CEO and co-founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been in custody in France since Saturday night, sparking a political and diplomatic row. On Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor said Durov would remain in custody for another 48 hours. Who Is Pavel Durov? At 8 p.m. on Saturday night, after his private jet flew in from Azerbaijan and touched down at Le Bourget airport near Paris, Durov was arrested by the French police and taken into custody. The 39-year-old co-founded Telegram in 2013 with his brother Nikolai, an encryption expert, and Forbes estimate he is worth $15.5 billion. Born in Russia to wealthy parents, he spent much of his childhood in Italy and has French and Russian passports as well as citizenship of the United Arab Emirates, and the Caribbean island nation of St Kitts and Nevis....

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