Author: Victor Goury-Laffont, Eva Hartog

PARIS — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov considered moving his family to Paris in 2018, the same year he met with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed acquiring French citizenship with him. Irina Bolgar, Durov’s former partner and the mother of three of his children, told POLITICO that she had signed an agreement to rent a €105,000-per-month house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an upscale Parisian suburb, where she was planning to settle with their children. The Telegram founder and CEO was arrested Aug. 24 near Paris and has since been indicted on six charges related to illicit activity on the app. He has…

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