Why has the CEO of Telegram been arrested?

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has recently been arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. He had returned from Baku, Azerbaijan by private plane.  Let us know the reasons behind the arrest of Pavel Durov.

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Who is Pavel Durov? 39-year-old Durov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Durov is the founder of the world's popular social media platform Telegram. Apart from Telegram, he is also the co-founder of VKontakte one of Russia's most popular social media networks.

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According to Forbes, his wealth is $15.5 billion and he is compared to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta. Currently living in Dubai, he is a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and France. 

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Pavel Durov is accused of failing to control criminal activities on the platform, so he has been arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. 

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According to Durov, in 2014 he was pressured by Putin's government allies to give Russian authorities access to data on the accounts of Ukrainian pro-democracy activists, which led him to  

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Durov claimed that pressured him to give Russian authorities access to data on the accounts of Ukrainian pro-democracy activists and that he refused to do so but by 2014 the Russian Putin government had taken control of VKontakte, due to which Durov sold his stake and fled from Russia. 

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Durov started Telegram in August 2013. Today Telegram is available all over the world  There are more than 950 million users. It is being claimed in media reports that Hamster Combat, which is creating hype all over the world, is also a game created by Telegram.

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