New problems for Pavel Durov. The French-Russian billionaire, president and CEO of messaging platform Telegram, who was arrested in France for offenses related to organized crime, is also the target of an investigation into “serious violence” to one of his children in Paris, a well-informed source told AFP today.

The investigation, assigned to OFMIN, the agency responsible for prosecuting crimes against minors, has just begun, the same source added, clarifying that the acts were allegedly committed against a child of his who was born in 2017 and attended school in Paris.

The little boy now lives in Switzerland with his mother. She filed a lawsuit in Switzerland in 2023accusing her ex-partner of abusing one of his children, the same source added.

Pavel Durov, 39, owner of a fortune estimated by US magazine Forbes at $15.5 billion, was arrested on Saturday in France as part of another investigation upon his arrival at Bourges airport, near Paris, where he was due to have dinner.

French justice accuses him in this case of not acting against the dissemination of criminal or misdemeanor content (drug trafficking, child pornography, fraud, money laundering) on ​​the Telegram messaging service he founded in 2013 with his brother, Nikolai, and which has more than 900 million users.

He was remanded in custody for almost four days and presented today before justice.