{"id":272171,"date":"2024-08-26T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=272171"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:44:07","slug":"french-police-arrest-telegram-founder-durov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/french-police-arrest-telegram-founder-durov\/","title":{"rendered":"French Police Arrest Telegram Founder Durov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_272172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/telegram-durov-arrest-france-social-media.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272172\" class=\"wp-image-272172 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/telegram-durov-arrest-france-social-media-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/telegram-durov-arrest-france-social-media-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/telegram-durov-arrest-france-social-media.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-272172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov speaks at a conference in Barcelona, Spain on 23 Feb 2016. \u00a9 AOP.Press \/ Corbis \/ Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>24 Aug 2024 <\/em>&#8211; The Russian founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on a private jet, local broadcaster LCI has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Durov, who obtained a French passport in 2021, was arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport at around 8pm local time, the outlet said on Saturday. He is also a citizen of the UAE, Saint Kitts and Nevis and his native Russia.<\/p>\n<p>His jet had arrived in the French capital from Azerbaijan. The 39-year-old\u00a0was accompanied by a woman and his bodyguard, it added.<\/p>\n<p>According to LCI, the French authorities issued an arrest warrant for the tech entrepreneur as part of a preliminary investigation. Paris believes that Telegram\u2019s insufficient moderation, its encryption tools and alleged lack of cooperation with police could make Durov complicit in drug trafficking, pedophilia offenses and fraud, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcaster TF1\u00a0reported that\u00a0Durov will appear before a judge on Sunday evening and could face up to 20 years in prison, it added.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"Read-more-text-only\" data-has-alias=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/602792-amsterdam-telegram-ban-security\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE:<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/602792-amsterdam-telegram-ban-security\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> EU capital\u2019s government bans Telegram<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Due to being a French citizen, the Telegram founder may also face accusations of violating sanctions imposed on Moscow by the EU due to his contacts in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Durov\u2019s arrest warrant was only legitimate on the territory of France. <em>\u201cHe made a mistake tonight. We don\u2019t know why,\u201d<\/em> a source close to the investigation told TF1-LCI. <em>\u201cIn any case, he\u2019s locked up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/603033-telegram-founder-paris-arrest\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Aug 2024 &#8211; The Russian founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on a private jet, local broadcaster LCI has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":272172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1268,1675,651,1006,3361],"class_list":["post-272171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-justice","tag-social-media","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272173,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272171\/revisions\/272173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}