The arrest of Pavel Durov in France worries tech giants and some states. Playing with lines and laws, the boss of the messaging service is paying for his lack of cooperation and sees his development threatened.
And the order came just hours after the French police arrested Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. Employees of the presidential administration and the Russian government, as well as employees of some security agencies, were ordered to delete their business correspondence from the encrypted messenger. According to the Russian Telegram channel Baza, which is close to the security services, a similar order was received by senior officials of the Ministry of Defense and several businessmen.
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The planet has been in turmoil since Saturday, May 24, and the arrest at Le Bourget airport of the Russian billionaire, co-founder of the platform with his older brother Nikolai, eleven years ago. The Kremlin suspects an attempt to destabilize the Russian army, a major user of encrypted messaging on the Ukrainian front.
Support for Telegram in front of the French embassy in Moscow, August 25. The Kremlin suspects an attempt by Paris to destabilize the Russian army. Credit: Sputnik/Abaca
A fortune of 13.9 billion euros
Moscow publicly protested the judicial operation while the United Arab Emirates, of which the businessman is also a national, demanded explanations. Elon Musk, the libertarian, and Julian Assange, the cyber-activist, came to the forefront to denounce an attack on freedom of expression. And from Google to Meta, people are trying to understand the possible implications of this arrest for their own business.
The French justice system accuses Pavel Durov of being an accomplice to the crimes and offenses that proliferate on his platform: terrorism, pedophilia, drug trafficking, etc. The man is facing a dozen charges. Also concerned in a complaint filed in Switzerland for serious violence against one of his sons, the billionaire seemed to be[…]
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