PARIS — Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and chief executive officer of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.
Durov was traveling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.Durov faces a possible indictment on Sunday, according to French media.
The Russian foreign ministry said its embassy in Paris was clarifying the situation around Durov and called on Western nongovernmental organizations to demand his release.Russia began blocking Telegram in 2018 after the app refused to comply with a court order to grant state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram there.
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