Telegram boss Back in Dubai when France examines criminal activities on the platform

Pavel Durov, Managing Director of Telegram, said he had traveled from France to Dubai when the French authorities continued to examine criminal activities in his messaging app.

He revealed his whereabouts in a post on his telegram channel.

He was arrested last year after he had arrived in Paris, where the French authorities gave him preliminary indictment for allegedly criminal activities on the platform.

After his arrest, Mr. Durov was excluded from the adoption of France until further investigations were available and had to report a police station twice a week.

“As you may have heard, I returned to Dubai after several months in France because you dealt with the activities of criminals in the telegram in connection with the activity of criminals,” he wrote. “The process continues, but it feels great to be at home.”

French investigators say that telegram was used for sexual abuse material and drug trafficking for children and that the platform refused to exchange information or documents with investigators if this is required by law.

In his post, Mr. Durov thanked the “investigative judges for making them happen”.

The investigators arrested Mr. Durov last August when he arrived in front of Paris at Le Bourget Airport and asked him as part of a comprehensive probe for four days.

Mr. Durov said in his post: “When it comes to moderation, cooperation and combat crimes, Telegram not only hit his legal obligations for years.”

Last year after his arrest that telegram was not a “anarchic paradise”, he passed the increasing number of telegram users, which caused “growing pain to make it easier for criminals to abuse our platform”.