French prosecutors said Monday that they detained the CEO of Telegram over an investigation opened in July into alleged illegal activities facilitated by the encrypted messaging app, a platform popular among the cryptocurrency community.
Dmitry Agranovsky, 53, the director of the Moscow Bar Association Liptser, Stavitskaya, and Partners, represents Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire and founder of the messaging app Telegram. Durov is accused of allowing criminal abuse of his free speech-oriented social media platform.
“It’s the same as blaming a car manufacturer, some giant auto concern, for the fact that its cars are used for criminal purposes, or blaming them for an accident,” Dmitry Agranovsky told Russian media about his client’s arrest.
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