Month: September 2024

The detention of Telegram founder Pavel Durov forced him to start cooperating with the French security forces and provide them with information that can help identify suspected users of his messenger. This is reported by the newspaper Libération.

According to the publication, until recently Pavel Durov’s company ignored requests from French law enforcement agencies, but now Telegram has changed its strategy and started “unprecedented cooperation” on all requests.

Telegram has responded to requests from the Office of Juvenile Affairs (Ofmin) of the French National Police and Gendarmerie during several criminal investigations, providing data that can identify suspects. In particular, we are talking about crimes against children.

“The door is really opening,” Joanna Brousse, head of the J3 cybercrime department of the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed to Libération.

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According to the newspaper, it is recommended that all French security forces resume investigations that were suspended due to the inability to obtain information from Telegram.

As EADaily reported, Durov was detained on August 24 at Le Bourget airport when he got off his private plane. He was accused of deliberately not moderating illegal content in the messenger. The founder of Telegram was “shocked by the arrest,” since the messenger had a communication channel with the General Directorate of Internal Security of France (DGSI, counterintelligence), Libération wrote earlier, citing a source. The founder of the messenger is being interrogated in Paris said that he maintained contacts with its representatives, in particular, met with them in Dubai.

Earlier, Paris prosecutor Laura Becky stated on RTL radio that Pavel Durov cooperates with the French judicial authorities and fully complies with the control conditions established after the charges were brought against him.

On September 6, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that Durov could, under certain conditions, transfer encryption keys to the French special services, although he did not want to do so.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that Russian diplomats in Paris were doing everything necessary in the situation with Durov’s detention, consular access was requested.

Recall that Durov holds passports of several countries, including France, Russia and the UAE.