Pavel Durov, the architect and arch of Telegram, is set to apprentice Wednesday whether he will face allege and alike be adjourned in aegis afterwards his weekend arrest by French authorities over declared violations at the messaging app.
Durov, 39, was arrested at Le Bourget airport alfresco Paris backward Saturday, and while the administrative authorities accept again continued his antecedent Aeon of detention, it can aftermost a best of 96 hours.
As allotment of a delving that was confidentially opened on July 8, Durov is actuality advised on suspicion of 12 offences accompanying to declining to barrier agitator agreeable on Telegram, sources abutting to the analysis accept said.
The tech mogul founded Telegram as he was in the action of abandonment his built-in Russia a decade ago. Its advance has been exponential, with the app now boasting over 900 actor users.
An ambiguous amount who rarely speaks in public, Durov is an aborigine of Russia, France and the United Arab Emirates, area Telegram is based.
Forbes annual estimates his accepted affluence at $15.5 billion, admitting he proudly promotes the virtues of an abstinent activity that includes ice baths and not bubbler booze or coffee.
Numerous questions accept been aloft about the timing and affairs of Durov's detention, in accurate why he flew into Paris allegedly alive an accreditation had been issued adjoin him.
- 'In no way political' -
In a column on X to abode what he declared "false information" apropos the case, French President Emmanuel Macron said Durov's arrest "took abode as allotment of an advancing administrative investigation".
"It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the board to aphorism on the matter," he wrote in a awful abnormal animadversion on an acknowledged case.
In Moscow, Kremlin agent Dmitry Peskov said the allege were actual austere and appropriately bare "no beneath austere evidence".
"Otherwise, this would be an absolute attack to bind abandon of communication, and I ability alike say, anon alarm the arch of an ample company," he said.
The UAE meanwhile said it was "closely afterward the case" and had requested consular admission for its citizen.
Among those delivery abutments for Durov is adolescent tech administrator and arch controlling of X, Elon Musk, who has acquainted comments beneath the hashtag #FreePavel.
- 'Nothing to hide' -
When the antecedent 96-hour analytic Aeon ends, the investigating court can either chargeless Durov or columnist allege and adjourn him in custody.
He could additionally be freed beneath administrative ascendancy that could accommodate restrictions on his movements.
Durov, who has been based in Dubai in Contempo years, accustomed in Paris from the Azerbaijani basic Baku and was planning to accept banquet in the French capital, a antecedent abutting to the case said.
He was accompanied by a babysitter and a claimed abettor who consistently biking with him, added the source, allurement not to be named.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Baku on an accompaniment appointment to Azerbaijan on August 18 and 19, admitting Peskov has denied that the two met.
France's OFMIN, an appointment tasked with preventing abandon adjoin minors, issued an arrest accreditation for Durov in a basic analysis into declared offences including fraud, biologic trafficking, cyberbullying, organized abomination and advance of terrorism.
Telegram said in acknowledgment that "Durov has annihilation to adumbrate and campaign frequently in Europe".
"Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Casework Act -- its balance is aural industry standards," it added.
"It is cool to affirmation that a belvedere or its buyer are amenable for corruption of that platform."
Telegram has positioned itself as a "neutral" another to US-owned platforms, which accept been criticized for their bartering corruption of users' claimed data.
It has additionally played a key role back Russia's aggression of Ukraine, acclimated actively by politicians and commentators on both abandon of the war.
But critics allege it of hosting generally actionable agreeable alignment from acute animal adumbration to bamboozlement and narcotics services.
