PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pavel Durov, the Russian-born architect of Telegram who was arrested in Paris, has annihilation to adumbrate and it is cool to authority and buyer amenable for corruption of the messaging and amusing media platform, Telegram said in a statement.
Durov, a 39-year-old billionaire, was arrested at Le Bourget airport alfresco Paris anon afterwards landing on a clandestine jet backward on Saturday from Azerbaijan.
The arrest of the Telegram CEO prompted an admonishing from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights, and criticism from X buyer Elon Musk who said that chargeless accent in Europe was beneath attack.
Telegram, in a abbreviate account appear afterwards midnight Paris time, gave no capacity of the arrest but said the Dubai-based aggregation abided by European Union laws and its balance was "within industry standards and consistently improving."
"Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov has annihilation to adumbrate and campaign frequently in Europe," Telegram said. "It is cool to affirmation that a belvedere or its buyer are amenable for corruption of that platform."
"We’re apprehension an alert resolution of this situation. Telegram is with you all."
Durov, who has bifold French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as allotment of a basic badge analysis into allegedly acceptance an advanced ambit of crimes due to an abridgement of moderators on Telegram and an abridgement of cooperation with police, a French badge antecedent said.
A cybersecurity gendarmerie assemblage and France's civic anti-fraud badge assemblage are arch the investigation, the antecedent said, abacus that the analytic adjudicator was specialized in organized crime.
Telegram was founded by Durov, who larboard Russia in 2014 afterwards he banned to accede with demands to shut bottomward action communities on his VK amusing media platform, which he has sold.
The encrypted application, with abutting to 1 billion users, is decidedly affecting in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the above Soviet Union. It is ranked as one of the above amusing media platforms afterwards Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and WeChat.
Durov, who was built-in in Soviet Leningrad and accelerating from St Petersburg State University, lists his political angle as "libertarian" and says he was aggressive by Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs.
Estimated by Forbes to accept an affluence of $15.5 billion, Durov said in April some governments had approved to burden him, but the app should abide an aloof belvedere and not a "player in geopolitics".
Durov, whose arrest led account bulletins in Russia, came up with the abstraction for an encrypted messaging app while adverse burden from Russian authorities. His adolescent brother, Nikolai, advised the encryption.
"I would rather be chargeless than to booty orders from anyone," Durov said in April about his avenue from Russia and chase for a home for his company, which included stints in Berlin, London, Singapore and San Francisco.
Russian administrator Maria Butina, who spent 15 months in U.S. bastille for acting as an unregistered Russian agent, said Durov "is a political captive - a victim of a witch-hunt by the West."
(Reporting by Ingrid Melander, Gilles Guillaume, Corentin Chaperon and Alain Acco in Paris, Lidia Kelly in Melbourne, Camille Raynaud in Toronto and Guy Falconbridge in Moscow.
