Telegram Boss Pavel Durov Temporarily Permitted to Leave France: Report

Co -founder and Executive Director of Telegram and Executive Director Pavel Durov can leave France to travel to Dubai, according to a report on Thursday in a French daily town World.

Durov, who was arrested in France last year at the charges of his crypto platform He was a copyr in allowing illegal material to be divided into the application, he would be able to leave the country from July 10. The second time is that he has received such approval from custody.

In April are French authorities allowed Durov to travel briefly to Dubai – but not to the United States. In Dubai are the headquarters of the Telegram Office. Durov had to pay a 5 million euro bond ($ 5.7 million) and report to the authorities twice a week as part of an agreement at that time.

The telegram could not immediately contact the comment.

French police claim that criminals use the application and that the telegram did not do enough to moderate content on it.

They also said Durov was under investigation for using certain types of cryptography on a platform in the country without approval.

The app has changed some of its functions since Durov cooperated with the authorities after his arrest. Users who now try to share illegal content could forward their IP addresses and phone numbers to the authorities, the app announced last year.

Russian born Durov, worth $ 13.9 billion, according to Bloomberg billionaire index often talks about civil freedoms and the importance of freedom.

His arrest last year outraged many in the crypto community – and many of them – with prominent figures such as the whistle of Edward Snowden and Head of Tesla Elon Musk who criticized the move of the French law.

The message exchange app is popular in the crypto world and supports numerous “Mini App” which allow customers to earn digital tokens.

Upper blockchain, Open networkHe created a telegram, but then abandoned in 2020. Because of its regulatory questions.

Development then continued from the outside through a community of independent developers. Users can earn the original, Ton21. The largest cryptocurrency in the market, in the application.

Edited James Rubin