ChainCatcher reported that according to the Wall Street Journal, a person close to Pavel Durov revealed that Telegram has long ignored subpoenas from law enforcement agencies and piled them up in a rarely checked company mailbox.
In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris and considered granting him French citizenship. In addition, people familiar with the matter said that in 2017, French and UAE spy agencies teamed up to hack into Durov's iPhone, with the operation codenamed "Purple Music".