According to Foresight News, a person close to Pavel Durov revealed that Telegram has long ignored subpoenas and court orders issued by law enforcement agencies, which are piled up in a rarely viewed company email address. According to people familiar with the matter, at a lunch in 2018, Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris. But Durov refused at the time, and Macron even discussed granting Pavel Durov French citizenship. People familiar with the matter said that in 2017, French spies worked with the UAE to target Pavel Durov and hacked into his iPhone.