Pavel Durov is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram French police have arrested Pavel Durov, the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of social media Telegram.
He was arrested at La Bourgeois airport, north of Paris, on Saturday.
The 39-year-old Russian-born tycoon has reportedly been arrested in connection with a crime related to the Telegram app.
According to French media reports, Mr. The private plane carrying Durov landed at La Bourgeois airport in France on Saturday evening. He was arrested after getting off the plane.
Russian state news agency Tas reported that Mr. Russian authorities have already learned of Durov’s arrest and are trying to understand the situation.
The Russian media reported that the Russian embassy in France is taking “immediate action” regarding the arrest. French media reports on the arrests said the popular messaging service Telegram was accused of allowing criminal activity to continue unimpeded.
In this complaint Mr. Durov has reportedly been arrested by the police. However, neither the Telegram app nor the French police have received any official comment on the matter.
Telegram is very popular as a messaging app all over the world. After the app was launched in 2013, Telegram became very popular in the countries of the former Soviet Union including Russia, Ukraine.
After that, when the Russian government started applying pressure to take the personal information of Telegram users, he left Russia and went to Dubai in 2014. tough After that, the app is running from there.
The Russian government banned the use of Telegram in 2018 due to the conflict. It didn’t last long though. The ban was lifted after three years.
Within a decade of its establishment, the social media Telegram became quite popular all over the world.
Statistics say, after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and WeChat, this is the most popular social media for the people of the world.
By 2025, the number of users of the app is expected to exceed 1 billion.
According to Forbes magazine, through the founder of Telegram Mr. Durov became one of the richest men in the world. Currently, his wealth is around 15 billion US dollars.
By 2025, the number of Telegram users is expected to exceed 1 billion.
What is the reason for the popularity of Telegram?
In a recent interview, the founder of Telegram app, Pavel Durov, said that within the next year, the number of active users of the app will exceed the milestone of one billion.
What is the reason behind the app becoming so popular within just one era of establishment?
According to experts, the number of users of Telegram app is increasing rapidly due to the opportunity to communicate with each other in a safe manner. According to the Financial Times, use of the Telegram app has increased in both countries since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.
And so currently almost all mainstream media, government agencies and celebrities in Russia and Ukraine are operating channels on Telegram. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also regularly posts videos on the Telegram app.
In an interview, Pavel Durov said, “Telegram app helps users easily exchange messages, phone calls and other files. That’s why the app has gained popularity very quickly.”
Currently the app has 90 million active users. Telegram as a social media wants to remain neutral Mr. tough “We are not interested in being part of any kind of geopolitics,” said the app’s founder.
Around 40 million people use the Telegram app.
Apart from Russia, Iran is one of the two countries that have banned Telegram in the past due to the lack of government control against the rise in popularity.
The country’s government banned the use of Telegram in 2018, declaring it a threat to national security. At that time, the number of users of the app in Iran was about 40 million. According to users, Telegram allows them to protect their privacy, so that Iran’s intelligence agencies cannot monitor it. And that’s why the app quickly gained popularity in Iran. Users also complained that the government banned Telegram out of fear.
Anti-government protests erupted in Iran months before the ban.
The Telegram app was widely used for communication, photo and video sharing as the protests spread across at least eighty cities at the time.
Apart from being used as a social medium, many people in Iran also used the platform for earning a living. One such is Ali Reza.
“I sell educational video clips to university aspirants through Telegram. My income is good, all necessary expenses are spent. “I’m in trouble because Telegram is blocked,” Mr Reza told the BBC after the ban.
Meanwhile, the app was also banned in Spain this year.
The country’s court has ordered internet providers to suspend use of Telegram to investigate allegations of copyright infringement.
Earlier, Telegram was banned in Iraq, Brazil and Somalia.
