Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Reportedly Arrested at Paris Airport

Durov has said he wants Telegram to be a ‘neutral platform’ and to not get involved in geopolitics.

Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a speech in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 23, 2016. Albert Gea/Reuters

Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of the messaging and social media platform Telegram, was arrested at an airport in Paris, according to French media reports published on Aug. 24.

He was arrested at about 8 p.m. local time at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by French police after he flew in from Azerbaijan, French news channel TF1 Info reported, citing police sources.