According to local media, the co-founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested this Saturday by French police for allowing criminal activities on the application.
The 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire had an arrest warrant issued by the juvenile office of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigations (OFMIN) and was taken into custody as he landed his private plane from Azerbaijan on the runway at Paris-Le Bourget. It is expected Durov appears before an investigating judge In the next few hours.
The French judge says that the lack of moderation on Telegram and Pavel Durov’s lack of cooperation with the authorities, as well as the tools provided by the platform, such as Disposable numbers and cryptographyThis would make him an accomplice in crimes such as terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and distribution of paedophile material.
Telegram is an instant messaging application for electronic devices Launched in 2013 by Durov and his brother Nikolai
As an alternative to the WhatsApp application.Russian representatives and senators have demanded the release of the businessman and expressed suspicions that the arrest is politically motivated and an attempt to access confidential information of Telegram users.
“Now we must get him out (from prison). I urge Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to ask the French authorities to release Pavel Durov,” Vladislav Davankov, deputy chairman of the Duma, or Chamber of Deputies, said in his letter on his Telegram channel. “I don’t think it will be possible to release him soon. I think he will remain in custody for many years,” predicted Andrei Svintsov, deputy head of the Duma’s information policy commission.
Russian Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova also accused France of detaining Pavel Durov in order to shut down Telegram. “It is quite obvious that the real reason for the arrest is an attempt to shut down the Internet platform Telegram, where you can find out the truth about what is happening in the world,” she commented precisely on the corresponding social network.
Based in Dubai and translated into more than 20 languages, Telegram is characterized by permanent cloud synchronization, which WhatsApp does not have, so that its users can access and share messages from different devices at the same time, including tablets and computers, and an unlimited number of photos, videos and files (doc, zip, mp3, etc.) of up to 2 GB each.
The platform also offers the creation of bots (automated messages), Implementation of privacy-protecting Secret Chat Limit on the number of users with special encryption between sender and recipient and up to 200,000 people per group.
For all this – its encryption, the large size of groups and the possibility of sharing files of any type or size – it is not surprising that the platform has become something unique but at the same time an attractive tool for criminals and extremists. In fact, Telegram has been removed from the App Store Or judicially blocked, also in Spain, on several occasions for allowing the exchange of illegal content and, in the case of authoritarian regimes, for encouraging protests by opponents.
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