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Durov’s bodyguard, assistant released after interrogation — AFP

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Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov AP Photo/ Roman Kulik
Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov
© AP Photo/ Roman Kulik

PARIS, August 27. /TASS/. French investigators released a bodyguard and an assistant of Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov detained in France, the AFP news agency said.

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Durov was arrested at the Le Bourget Airport on August 24. The period of his detention was extended for 96 hours the next day. The Paris Office of Prosecutor charges him in particular with "complicity in illegal drug trafficking, crimes against children, and fraud."

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