Telegram Billionaire, Who Was Arrested In France, Faces Unrelated Criminal Complaint In Switzerland
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
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The ongoing case is not Durov’s only legal trouble as he remains in custody in France after his arrest on Saturday, as part of an unrelated investigation into illicit transactions, child pornography and other criminal activities on Telegram.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, August 30th. |
| 0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, telegram billionaire who was arrested in France |
| 0:10.0 | faces unrelated criminal complaint in Switzerland. |
| 0:14.0 | Pavl durov, the billionaire CEO and founder of messaging app telegram, |
| 0:19.0 | was arrested in France last weekend and charged Wednesday with a number of crimes related to illicit |
| 0:24.6 | activity on his messaging app including being complicit in managing an online |
| 0:28.7 | platform to enable illegal transactions and not cooperating with law enforcement. |
| 0:34.4 | Now it turns out, Durov is also a suspect in a criminal case in Switzerland, Forbes has learned. |
| 0:41.1 | The case was filed by his former partner, Irena Bulgar, who claims to have three children with |
| 0:46.0 | Durov. |
| 0:47.6 | The criminal complaint in Geneva, filed in March 2023, alleges that Durov was physically violent towards one of his three children. |
| 0:56.4 | Bulgar filed a civil child custody case shortly after. |
| 1:00.0 | Both cases were submitted a few months after Bulgar alleges Durov stopped paying her |
| 1:03.8 | 150,000 euros or about $167,500 per month in child support, according to court filings. |
| 1:13.0 | The Geneva Public Prosecutor's Office initially refused to enter the criminal complaint against |
| 1:18.0 | Durov when it received it because it had been filed more than three months after the most recent instance of alleged physical violence. |
| 1:26.3 | In May 2023, Bulgar appealed, and the court allowed the case to move forward last October. The case, which is ongoing, according to a Geneva court official, |
| 1:36.0 | alleges that Durov harmed his youngest son, |
| 1:39.0 | born in September 2017, |
| 1:41.0 | five times between 2021 and 2022. |
| 1:45.0 | The incidents allegedly resulted in injuries including a concussion and sleep disorders. |
| 1:50.0 | Transcripts of messages purportedly exchanged by Bulgar and Durov in November 2021 in Paris |
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