Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France on prices of failing to regulate unlawful content material on the app, can also be being investigated by authorities for finishing up “acts of violence” in opposition to one among his sons, CNN reported. Russian-born Durov was arrested at Le Bourget airport final week on suspicion of utilizing the app for little one pornography, drug trafficking and cash laundering.
The investigation in opposition to the 39-year-old man was just lately launched by the French little one safety workplace for alleged acts of violence in opposition to his son, born in 2017, who at present resides in Switzerland together with his mom.
Durov’s ex-partner and mom of the kid, Irina Bolgar, filed a grievance in 2023 with a Swiss courtroom in Geneva. In response to CNN, Bolgar was in a relationship with the Russian billionaire between 2013 and 2022, throughout which the couple had three kids. Bolgar and the youngsters now reside in Switzerland.
In her grievance, Bolgar alleged that Durov bodily abused her minor son a number of occasions between 2021 and 2022. On one event, Durov even allegedly threatened to kill her son, in line with the grievance. Because of Durov’s remedy, the boy suffered from nervousness, had bouts of bedwetting and issue sleeping.
Bolgar mentioned they separated in late 2018 and that Durov “undertook in writing” to pay 150,000 euros a month for her and their kids’s assist. “He gave her two financial institution playing cards that allowed her to withdraw that sum from his private accounts,” the grievance says.
Bolgar, nonetheless, claimed that Durov had not seen his kids since September 2022 and had “blocked” the financial institution playing cards he had given her.
Durov posted bail of $5.56 million (5 million euros) on Wednesday to be launched however should stay in France underneath judicial supervision till the investigation is concluded.
