Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

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Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris.

Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported.

According to officials the 39-year-old billionaire was arrested under a warrant for offences related to the popular messaging app.

The investigation is reportedly about a lack of moderators, with Durov accused of failing to take steps to curb criminal uses of Telegram.

the Russian founder of the telegram
messaging app paval durov has been
arrested at a French airport Reports say
authorities have been investigating a
lack of moderators on the app which they
say allows criminal activity to take
place our correspondent will Vernon
explains what we know about the arrest
yeah this is coming from a number of uh
French media Who quote sources in French
law enforcement who say that pav dorov
was arrested uh on Saturday evening last
night at an airport near Paris he'd
apparently arrived on his private yet uh
from aaban and uh they are saying that
he was arrested on the basis of an AR
arrest warrant uh that was issued in
connection with telegram's failure to
moderate illegal content and cooperate
with law enforcement over drug
trafficking child sexual content and
fraud this is just coming from French
media we should stress of course
telegram would uh almost certainly deny
all of those allegations but uh we'll
have to see now uh whether he could
appear in court today French media are
saying he could be indicted uh today and
of course uh what the reaction will be
you mentioned that the Russian foreign
Ministry uh they've said that diplomats
in Paris are urgently working uh in
connection with his arrest um over the
years we haven't heard a lot about him
in public he's been quite a private
person but more recently he did a long
interview with taka Carlson um in
America and so has come out more in
public hasn't he yeah he has he was uh
he was quite vocal uh when he was still
in Russia you mentioned that in 2014 he
fell out with the authorities according
to him the Kremlin tried to basically
take control uh of the company they
tried to force VK which is the company
that he created Russia's version of
Facebook to hand over uh personal data
from uh of pro- Ukrainian protesters
anti- Kremlin protesters according to DV
the company refused to do that uh and he
was basically forced to sell it to a
company that had close links to the
Kremlin uh VK is now almost totally
under the control of the Russian
Security Services that is our
correspondent wian just a line that
we're getting in from the AFP news
agency which is the French news agency
they are saying that Russia says France
are refusing to cooperate after the
arrest of that telegram owner so that
Russia saying France refusing to
cooperate over the arrest now