<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">French authorities have arrested Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire and founder of the Telegram messaging app, at an airport outside the French capital, Paris. </p><figure class="image"><img src="https://al24news.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/5e8ce1a4d48f4d868036b6b6eee6f42a.jpg" alt="Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at Le Bourget airport near Paris - AL24 News"></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">French judiciary brings serious charges against Pavel Durov</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> French media reported that Durov, the founder of the Telegram application, was arrested at Le Bourget Airport on Saturday evening, while traveling from Azerbaijan on his private plane, based on a French arrest warrant. The investigation will be conducted into the lack of supervisors of the Telegram application’s content, which causes criminal activities to occur through the application. </p><figure class="image"><img src="https://www.agenzianova.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/21420233640_af99df58f4_c.jpg" alt="Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram platform, arrested in Paris"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the French judiciary, the failure to moderate Telegram content, cooperate with security forces, and provide encryption tools led to Pavel Durov’s involvement in numerous cases, including drug trafficking, child sexual exploitation crimes, and fraud crimes.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> One of the investigators also stated that many crimes had been committed through the Telegram application and that Durov had not taken any action to stop or reduce them, and he is likely to be sentenced to twenty years in prison.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> For its part, the Russian embassy in France began taking some steps to clarify the situation, while some Russian politicians criticized this behavior by France, considering that it is acting like a dictatorial state, and they called for protests in front of the French embassies.</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Durov's move from Russia due to politics</span> </h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://aroundtheworld-ar.com/temp/thumb/900x450_uploads,2024,08,25,66ac525cfc.jpg" alt="Telegram founder Pavel Durov faces terrorism, drug and money laundering charges"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is worth noting that Pavel Durov currently resides in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://news.sbisiali.com/news/article/andrew-tate-praises-dubai-police-compares-them-to-london-police">Dubai</a> , where he founded the Telegram application after leaving Russia in 2014 due to his refusal to close opposition communities on his previous platform VK, which is famous in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://news.sbisiali.com/news/article/a-strange-condition-from-the-kuwaiti-shams-to-reconcile-with-ahlam-what-is-the-relationship-between-russia-and-turkey">Russia</a> .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84+%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81&wprov=acrw1_0">Durov's</a> fortune is estimated at about $15.5 billion, and he has stressed on more than one occasion that <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85&wprov=acrw1_0">Telegram</a> will remain a neutral platform and not involved in politics.</p>