Pavel Durov, who can be described as the breaking and CEO of the Telegram company, has recently been apprehended in Paris. šŸ„²

The arrest was made because police claim that the Telegram application has been misused ā€” by drug šŸ’ŠšŸ’‰traffickers and child pornography šŸ”ždistributors.

Durov was stuck across the border in Paris-Le Bourget Airport where he was released from police custody after almost four days of questioning. Bail was set at 5 million euros šŸ’¶and he is required to report to police stations twice a week. French authorities have pulled up charges of him being complicit in the activities of a criminal institute managing an internet portal that facilitates the organized crime system which is punishable by harsh penalties.

TelegramšŸ§‘ā€šŸ’»is a particular messengerā€™s application inviting to be used with its long group chats and channels built in with the feature for end-to-end encryption exclusive in-use in one-on-one communication, in noway for group communications by default. This raised two potential concerns.

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