Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says that he has travelled from France to Dubai, even as the French authorities continue to investigate criminal activity on his messaging app.

Cyber officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications after a sprawling hacking campaign.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app.

French President Emmanuel Macron is defending his government’s decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov.

Over more than a decade, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram has amassed various different citizenships.

French authorities have handed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov preliminary charges for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation.

French prosecutors say an investigative judge has extended police custody for the Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov.

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in Paris over allegations that his platform was being used for illicit activity including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images.

French President Emmanuel Macron says the arrest in France of the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, wasn’t a political move but part of an independent investigation.

French broadcast media reports say the founder and CEO of the popular messaging service Telegram has been detained at a Paris airport.

Internet providers and wireless carriers in Brazil have stopped blocking Telegram after a federal judge partially revised a ruling suspending the social media app over its failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity.