{"id":34537,"date":"2025-06-20T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=34537"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:45:55","slug":"telegramming-the-18-billion-fortune-to-over-100-children-of-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/telegramming-the-18-billion-fortune-to-over-100-children-of-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegramming the $18 billion fortune to over 100 children of Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"
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– BBC report about Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder, who plans to leave his he fathered, with inheritance delayed for 30 years, a decision that challenges conventional wealth distribution norms and reflects his unconventional lifestyle. $28 billion at Bitcoin $140k per Bitcoin <\/div>\n
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– Pavel Durov\u2019s history of resisting government censorship, including his exit from VKontakte in 2014 after Kremlin pressure, aligns with Telegram\u2019s privacy-focused design, which hosts over a billion users but has weaker moderation than competitors, as noted by cybersecurity experts in a 2023 study from the Journal of Cybersecurity.<\/div>\n
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– His move to Dubai and dual citizenship with France and the UAE highlight a strategic relocation to avoid regulatory scrutiny, a pattern seen among tech moguls, with data from the 2022 Global Wealth Report showing 25% of billionaires now reside in tax-haven jurisdictions. <\/div>\n

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Telegram boss to leave fortune to over 100 children he has fathered | Peter Hoskins, BBC<\/div>\n
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The founder of instant messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says the more than 100 children he has fathered will share his estimated $13.9bn (\u00a310.3bn) fortune.<\/div>\n
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“They are all my children and will all have the same rights! I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death,” Mr Durov told French political magazine Le Point.<\/div>\n
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Mr Durov claimed he is the “official father” of six children with three different partners, but the clinic “where I started donating sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend, told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived this way in 12 countries.”<\/div>\n
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He also reiterated that he denies any wrongdoing in connection with serious criminal charges he faces in France.<\/div>\n
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The self-exiled Russian technology tycoon also told the magazine that his children would not have access to their inheritance for 30 years.<\/div>\n
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“I want them to live like normal people, to build themselves up alone, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to be dependent on a bank account,” he said.<\/div>\n
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The BBC has approached Mr Durov for comment.<\/div>\n
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The 40-year-old said he had written a will now because his job “involves risks \u2013 defending freedoms earns you many enemies, including within powerful states”.<\/div>\n
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His app, Telegram, known for its focus on privacy and encrypted messaging, has more than a billion monthly active users.<\/div>\n
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Mr Durov also addressed criminal charges he faces in France, where he was arrested last year after being accused of failing to properly moderate the app to reduce criminality.<\/div>\n
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He has denied failing to cooperate with law enforcement over drug trafficking, child sexual abuse content and fraud. Telegram has previously denied having insufficient moderation.<\/div>\n
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In the Le Point interview he described the charges as “totally absurd”.<\/div>\n
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“Just because criminals use our messaging service among many others doesn’t make those who run it criminals,” he added.<\/div>\n
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Russian-born Mr Durov now lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based. He holds dual citizenship of France and the United Arab Emirates.<\/div>\n
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– BBC report about Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder, who plans to leave his he fathered, with inheritance delayed for 30 years, a decision that challenges conventional wealth distribution norms and reflects his unconventional lifestyle. $28 billion at Bitcoin $140k per Bitcoin  – Pavel Durov\u2019s history of resisting government censorship, including his exit from VKontakte in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}