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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov charged by Russia's FSB for facilitating terrorism

MOSCOW: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, and that it had issued an international warrant for his arrest.

The FSB ‌said that ⁠the ⁠charges related to Telegram's failure to remove material "used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations within the Russian Federation."

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