French broadcast media say the founder and CEO of the popular messaging service Telegram has been detained at a Paris airport.
FILE - Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov, center, smiles following his meeting with Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Rudiantara in Jakarta, Indonesia on Aug. 1, 2017. – The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport, French media reported Sunday.
French media reported that Durov, 39, was the subject of an arrest warrant on allegations that his platform has been used for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses. The reports said that the warrant was issued by France at the request of the special unit at the country's interior ministry in charge of investigating crimes against minors, including online sexual exploitation, such as possession and distribution of child sexual abuse content and grooming for sexual purposes.
Telegram continued to be widely used — including by government institutions — and the ban was dropped two years later. In March 2024, Roskomnadzor said that Telegram was working with the Russian government to a certain extent and had removed more than 256,000 posts with prohibited content at Roskomnadzor’s request.
“If the person concerned is to be brought before a judge today, it is only in the context of the possible extension of his police custody measure — a decision that must be taken and notified by an investigating judge,” the official said.
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