Founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app Pavel Durov was reportedly arrested in France on Saturday.
据报道,通讯应用Telegram(电报)的创始人兼首席执行官帕维尔·杜罗夫于周六在法国被捕。
French media, citing unnamed sources, say he was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris.
法国媒体援引未具名消息人士的话称,他是在巴黎郊外的布尔歇机场被捕的。
Durov was reportedly travelling aboard his private jet.
据报道,杜罗夫当时乘坐的是他的私人飞机。
According to TV news network TF1, he was targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.
据电视新闻网络TF1报道,作为警方初步调查的一部分,他在法国收到了逮捕令。
News outlets TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on the lack of moderators on Telegram.
新闻媒体TF1和BFM都披露,调查的重点是Telegram缺乏审核内容的版主。
Russian-born Durov founded Telegram with his brother in 2013.
出生于俄罗斯的杜罗夫,与他的兄弟一起在2013年创立了Telegram。
With close to one billion users, Telegram is influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union.
Telegram拥有近10亿用户,在俄罗斯、乌克兰和前苏联加盟共和国都很有影响力。
Its increasing popularity, however, has prompted scrutiny from several countries in Europe, including France, on security and data breach concerns.
但是随着它越来越受欢迎,也引发了包括法国在内的几个欧洲国家对安全和数据泄露问题的审查。
Durov, who Forbes estimates has a fortune worth $15.5 billion, said some governments had sought to pressure him but the app should remain a "neutral platform" and not a "player in geopolitics."
据《福布斯》估计,杜罗夫拥有155亿美元的财富。杜罗夫之前曾表示,有一些政府试图向自己施压,但他认为该应用程序应该保持“中立的平台”,而不是“地缘政治的参与者”。
Russia began blocking Telegram in 2018 after the app refused to comply with a court order to grant state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.
俄罗斯于2018年开始屏蔽Telegram,因为该应用程序拒绝遵守法院“授予国家安全部门访问其用户加密信息的权限”的指令。