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Telegram CEO Durov says his arrest 'misguided'

Pavel Durov has hit back at French authorities following his arrest in Paris last week.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has hit out at French authorities, calling his arrest last week in relation to allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app "misguided". Mr Durov was arrested on 25 August at an airport north of Paris and has since been charged over suspected complicity in allowing illicit transactions, drug trafficking, fraud and the spread of child sex abuse images to flourish on his site. In his statement on Thursday, Mr Durov admitted that an "abrupt increase" in the number of users on the messaging app - which he put at 950 million - had "caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform."

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