Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 says on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation
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TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app. “I would rather be free than to take orders from anyone,” Durov told US journalist Tucker Carlson in April about his exit from Russia and search for a home for his company which included stints in Berlin, London, Singapore and San Francisco.
The Russian foreign ministry said its embassy in Paris was clarifying the situation around Durov and called on Western non-governmental organizations to demand his release.
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