Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV said, citing an unnamed source.
Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France.
The 39-year-old is understood to have been travelling from Azerbaijan and was arrested at about 8pm local time (6pm GMT).
Durov was expected to appear in court on Sunday.
The Russia-born entrepreneur lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and holds dual citizenship of France and the United Arab Emirates.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov recently revealed to Tucker Carlson that the FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.
The FBI also hired agents to infiltrate ‘anti-vaxx’ Telegram groups, with FBI contractors creating multiple fake online identities to join chatrooms run by groups opposing vaccine mandates.
Mike Benz provides background.
We are private citizens. They should know nothing about us.
They are public servants. We should know everything about them.
Yes.
That was so good, I’ve copied to my list of great quotes. Thank you.
Same.
I doubt a 4 year term for the next Admin is going to be long enough to rid the US of this.
The FBI doesn’t need a new building.
etc…
Shoulda known better than to travel through facist countries..
Yup. The EU is the fourth or fifth Reich? Of course the usual leftist fools will collaborate and censor.
100% C_Miner…
They are after Scott Ritter too.
How long before Benz is swatted, raided by 83 fuds in the middle of the night, has his brakes tampered with, or accompanied by 7 to 10 air marshalls on every flight? Modern day Stasi. Where’s the lie?
He is a very good man who, like Elon Musk, believes in free speech.
I strongly suspect that the American Deep State is behind his arrest.
on the Gateway Pundit one of the resident anti-semites are saying a certain tribe is behind it. As they are behind all of the sinister plots on the planet. Because they’re the boogeyman!
BOO! (running away in terror.)
He is a russian criminal. They should start with waterbording, then maybe ask questions.
FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.
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VPN is the biggest running joke in surveillance.. For 2 bucks a month, everybody with something to hide can round themselves up :).. Its WORKS, my USA Netflix proves it..
But they would only use it for bad guys surveillance. Honestly Injun.
Don’t trust on a VPN only to hide you. The IC will have tools to target VPN users particularly.
In fact, a VPN provider will neatly cooperate just like Facebook and many governments. There are principles so they can break them.
A VPN can protect from some man in the middle attacks, but not from what Snowden revealed is going on.
Everything is fake and gay.