It's Thursday, August 29, 2024. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The arrest in France on Saturday, a Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram and its associated

companies, has made international news. It has also sent shock waves

through the world. Now in truth many Americans have no idea who he is. They have

no idea why France might have arrested him. They have no idea how he became a billionaire, a multi-billionaire.

You have international financial firms estimating that his personal worth is something like 9.5 million dollars.

But when you're talking about Pavaldurov,

you're talking about one of the worlds,

not only wealthiest, but most interesting

and perhaps most controversial characters.

The arrest in France by national law enforcement authorities there

has not been backed up yet with any clear sense of an indictment against him or a specific charges.

However, sources close to the government there in France said that it is two issues in particular

that had prompted an investigation and led to the arrest. They had to do with massive financial fraud in terms of international schemes

and also child pornography. But let's be very careful these are not personal charges against

Pavildurov in this case. Instead they are charges made against his platform and

he of course the founder and the president of it. You are looking at someone who has also taken on his own persona in the public. In much of the world he is seen as something of an Elon Musk figure and like many others, particularly the Titans of the hyper-technology field,

Pavel durov also has a very interesting personal story. He is identified as Russian. He was arrested in France and yet he has

spent much of his life in the Middle East. The headline in CNN was this a

Russian Elon Musk with 100 biological children referring

to Pavildurov.

You heard that right, 100 biological children.

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