Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested at an airport just outside Paris, France, on Saturday.
French police had an arrest warrant for Durov and moved to arrest him after seeing he was on a passenger list for a flight coming from Azerbaijan, according to Reuters.
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