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Pavel Durov In a lengthy post , said his arrest, Durov said it was “surprising” he was being held responsible for other people’s content.
“Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,” he said.
He also lashed out at claims that his app is some sort of anarchic paradise” as “absolutely untrue”, insisting: “We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day.”He denied accusations from France that Paris had not received responses from the app to its requests, saying he had personally helped French authorities “establish a hotline with the app to deal with the threat of terrorism in France”.
Durov was arrested on August 24 at Le Bourget airport outside Paris after arriving aboard a private jet and questioned in the subsequent days by investigators.
He was granted conditional release on a bail of five million euros ($5.5 million) and on the condition that he must report to a police station twice a week as well as remaining in France.
An enigmatic figure who rarely speaks in public, Durov is a citizen of Russia, France and the United Arab Emirates, where Telegram is based.
Forbes magazine estimates his current fortune at $15.5 billion, though he proudly promotes the virtues of an ascetic life that includes ice baths and not drinking alcohol or coffee.