Who is Pavel Durov? Billionaire founder of Telegram remains a mysterious figure

Once nicknamed the ‘Russian Zuckerberg’, Durov has boasted of being the biological father of more than 100 children

The Russian-born tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov has founded wildly popular social networks as well as a cryptocurrency, amassed a multibillion dollar fortune and locked horns with authorities in Russia and around the world.

Still a few months shy of his 40th birthday, the man once nicknamed the “Russian Zuckerberg” after the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg now finds himself under arrest in France after being detained at a Paris airport this weekend.