PARIS (Reuters) -Pavel Durov, billionaire owner and chief executive officer of the Telegram messaging application was jailed at the Bourget flight terminal outside Paris on Saturday night, TF1 television and BFM television claimed, pointing out unrevealed resources.
Durov was taking a trip aboard his exclusive jet, TF1 claimed on its web site, including he had actually been targeted by an apprehension warrant in France as component of an initial cops examination.
TF1 and BFM both claimed the examination was concentrated on an absence of mediators on Telegram, which cops thought about that this circumstance permitted criminal task to take place undeterred on the messaging application.
Telegram did not right away reply to a Reuters ask for remark. The French Interior Ministry and cops had no remark.
TF1 claimed Durov had actually been taking a trip from Azerbaidjan and was jailed at around 20:00 (18:00 GMT).
Telegram, based in Dubai, was started by Russian- birthed Durov, that left Russia in 2014 after he rejected to abide by needs to close down resistance areas on his VK social networks system, which he marketed.
Durov, that is approximated by Forbes to have a lot of money of $15.5 billion, claimed some federal governments had actually looked for to press him yet the application, which has currently 900 million energetic customers, ought to continue to be a “neutral platform” and not a “player in geopolitics”.
(Reporting by Ingrid Melander and Gilles Guillaume in Paris, and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by David Gregorio)
