Blogger Yulia Vavilova, who accompanied Pavel Durov at the time of his arrest in France, said that the laptops and smartphones seized by the police were returned to her. She posted about this on Instagram*.
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“You won’t believe it! I can’t even believe it myself. They returned my favorite gaming laptop, my MacBook, and two iPhones,” the blogger wrote. He added that the equipment was seized on August 24.
Vavilova posted a photo of herself sitting surrounded by four laptops and three smartphones, noting that now “we only have two copies.” The blogger did not specify whether the equipment was returned to Durov.
The creator of Telegram was detained at Parisian Le Bourget airport on August 24, where he arrived on a private plane from Azerbaijan. Two days later, he was charged with refusing to cooperate with authorities in the area of cyber and financial crimes on Messenger. The billionaire was subsequently released, but placed under judicial supervision, prohibited from leaving France, ordered to pay bail of 5 million euros and to report to the police station twice a week.
In early October, Durov said Vavilova was pregnant when they arrived in Paris, but lost the child after being detained. The blogger herself clarified that she found out about the pregnancy on August 25, when Durov was at the police station. According to the girl, she experienced severe stress and, as a result, on October 4, the doctor informed her that the girl had suffered a cardiac arrest in the tenth week of pregnancy.
*Instagram belongs to Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization in Russia and is banned.
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