{"id":1004884,"date":"2026-04-25T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004884"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:39:15","slug":"telegram-founder-pavel-durov-says-he-received-summons-in-russia-addressed-to-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-says-he-received-summons-in-russia-addressed-to-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he received summons in Russia addressed to &#8216;suspect&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger app, said on Wednesday he had received a summons in Russia at an old address naming him as a &#8220;suspect&#8221; in a criminal case. <\/p>\n<p>Russia stepped up its bid to subjugate \u200cTelegram in \u2060February, \u2060announcing in a state-run newspaper it was investigating billionaire founder \u200bDurov as part of a criminal case involving accusations of terrorism. <\/p>\n<p>Durov, writing on Telegram, posted a copy of the summons sent through the Russian postal service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger app, said on Wednesday he had received a summons in Russia at an old address naming him as a &#8220;suspect&#8221; in a criminal case. Russia stepped up its bid to subjugate \u200cTelegram in \u2060February, \u2060announcing in a state-run newspaper it was investigating billionaire founder \u200bDurov as part of a criminal case involving accusations of terrorism. Durov, writing on Telegram, posted a copy of the summons sent through the Russian postal service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004885,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004884\/revisions\/1004885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}