Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is banned from leaving Fr...

The French authorities has forbidden Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from leaving the nation with out official authorization, in keeping with a report from Politico. Durov was arrested in France in August 2024 and later indicted for being complicit in criminality that occurrs on Telegram, like cash laundering and the distribution of CSAM (baby sexual abuse materials).

Durov was trying to journey to the US for “negotiations with funding funds,” Politico writes, one thing that French officers determined “didn’t seem crucial or justified.” In March, Durov obtained permission to journey to the United Arab Emirates, the place he maintains citizenship.

Following Durov’s arrest, Telegram shared that it abided by EU legal guidelines, together with the Digital Services Act, and that “its moderation is inside business requirements and continuously bettering.” As proof of that fixed enchancment, Telegram determined it could provide user IP addresses and phone numbers in response to authorized requests in September 2024, one thing it initially made a degree of avoiding. The messaging platform later partnered with the International Watch Foundation in December 2024 to make use of the group’s instruments to dam hyperlinks to CSAM in Telegram. Each strikes might be seen as makes an attempt to appease authorities who would possibly need the messaging platform to reply for the legal exercise it is seemingly enabled.