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August 11, 2026 Breaking

Navy ship rape claim dismissed

A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by Elsie Dominguez, a civilian marine engineer who alleged that she was raped aboard a U.S. Navy-operated transport v...

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April 4, 2026 Politics

Hartmut Ebbing faces abuse allegations

Berlin · Germany

Hartmut Ebbing, a former member of the German Bundestag representing the Free Democratic Party and a former treasurer of the German-Israeli Society, is facing legal proceedings in Germany...

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March 21, 2026 Breaking

Kendra Duggar faces criminal charges in Arkansas

Arkansas · United States

Kendra Duggar has been formally charged in Arkansas in connection with alleged sexual misconduct, according to statements from local law enforcement on March 21, 2026. The charges relate ...

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March 21, 2026 Breaking

Joseph Duggar arrested over alleged sexual misconduct

Florida · United States

Joseph Duggar was arrested on March 21, 2026, following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to law enforcement officials in Arkansas. The arrest stems from claims made by authorit...

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March 3, 2026 Breaking

Louisiana mayor convicted in juvenile misconduct case

Baton Rouge · Louisiana · United States

Louisiana mayor convicted in juvenile misconduct case On March 3, 2026, a jury in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana found former DeRidder mayor Misty Roberts guilty on felony charges related ...

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February 24, 2026 Breaking

Pride Group Founder Jailed for Rape of 12-Year-Old Boy

A court has sentenced the founder of a local pride advocacy group to a term of imprisonment following a conviction for the rape of a 12-year-old boy. The conviction was delivered after a...

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February 20, 2026 Breaking

Karl Jacobson faces embezzlement charges

Salt Lake City · Utah · United States

Karl Jacobson faces embezzlement charges On February 20, 2026, former New Haven, Connecticut, Police Chief Karl Jacobson was arrested on two counts of larceny in the first degree after a...

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February 19, 2026 Breaking

Michael William Mohr charged with producing child pornography

Texas · Houston · United States

Michael William Mohr charged with producing child pornography On February 19, 2026, 54‑year‑old Michael William Mohr of Springfield was charged in St. Louis by federal complaint with one...

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February 19, 2026 Politics

U.S. ambassador urges belgium to halt prosecution of mohels in antwerp

Antwerp · Flanders · Belgium

U.S. ambassador urges belgium to halt prosecution of mohels in antwerp On February 18, 2026, the United States ambassador to Belgium publicly called on Belgian authorities to discontinue...

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February 10, 2026 Breaking

Squatty Potty creator faces child pornography charges in Utah

Salt Lake City · Utah · United States

Squatty Potty creator faces child pornography charges in Utah On February 10, 2026, a federal grand jury in Utah indicted Robert "Bobby" Edwards, co-creator of the toilet...

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February 10, 2026 Breaking

Sam Bankman‑Fried Files Motion for New Trial in FTX Fraud Case

Manhattan Federal Court · New York City · New York · United States

On February 10, 2026, former cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman‑Fried filed a legal motion seeking a new trial in his long‑running fraud case tied to the collapse of the cryptocurrency ...

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February 6, 2026 Breaking

Former Salt Lake City Fire Department battalion chief Kelly J. Carter arrested on child sexual exploitation charges

Salt Lake City · Utah · United States

Former Salt Lake City Fire Department battalion chief Kelly J. Carter arrested on child sexual exploitation charges On February 6, 2026, Kelly Jay Carter, a 51‑year‑old retired...

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February 5, 2026 Breaking

Italy probes alleged “sniper tourism” in 1990s Bosnia

Rome · Lazio · Italy

On February 5, 2026, Italian prosecutors in Milan confirmed they are investigating allegations that some individuals paid to shoot at civilians in Sarajevo during the siege of the Bosnian...

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February 5, 2026 Wars & Conflicts

Beit Shemesh Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Spying for Iran

Beit Shemesh · Jerusalem District · Israel

Beit Shemesh Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Spying for Iran On February 5, 2026, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Elimelech Stern, a 22-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, t...

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January 29, 2026 Breaking

Israeli Cybersecurity Executive Itai Levi Convicted Of Multiple Child Sex Offenses

Tel Aviv District Court · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Conviction Of Itai Levi On Charges Of Child Sexual Abuse On January 29, 2026, the Central District Court in Israel convicted **Itai Levi**, an executive and former chief execut...

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January 27, 2026 Breaking

Avraham Gil avoids jail

Miami · Florida · United States

Avraham Gil, the 19-year-old son of an Israeli consular official in Miami, avoided jail time after completing the requirements of a plea agreement stemming from a motorcycle collision wit...

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January 22, 2026 Breaking

IDF reservist convicted in large-scale online child sexual abuse case

Tel Aviv District Court · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

A district court in central Israel convicted a 22-year-old Israel Defense Forces reservist of dozens of sexual offenses in what prosecutors described as an unprecedented large-scale onlin...

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January 12, 2026 Breaking

Felon freed by trump sentenced again after new offenses

On November 12, 2025, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Jonathan Braun to **27 months in prison** after he committed several offenses following a previous sentence commutation by form...

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January 10, 2026 Breaking

Brothers jailed for raping 12-year-old girl

Patrick Leonard, 23, and Lannee Ksigwa, 19, were sentenced to prison following convictions for the rape of a 12-year-old girl, authorities reported. The trial took place at Bradford Crow...

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December 22, 2025 Breaking

Former Newton Rabbi Arrested Child Enticement Case

Framingham · Massachusetts · USA

Eric Gurvis, a former rabbi who previously served at Temple Shalom in Newton, Massachusetts, was arrested in December 2025 in Framingham, Massachusetts, as part of a law enforcement sting...

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December 10, 2025 Breaking

Ex‑Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Fit to Stand Trial, Prison Officials Say

New York Supreme Court · New York City · New York · United States

On December 10, 2025, federal prison officials informed a U.S. District Court in New York that former Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive officer Mike Jeffries is now competent to stand t...

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November 20, 2025 Breaking

Mordechai Yom Tov arrest

Jerusalem

Israeli police arrested Mordechai Yom Tov in Jerusalem on November 20, 2025, after authorities located him more than two decades after he fled the United States while on probation followi...

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November 14, 2025 Politics

Trump Pardons Nursing Home Executive Schwartz

On November 14, 2025, President Donald Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive who had been convicted in April 2025 of federal ta...

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November 10, 2025 Breaking

Unresolved questions remain in charlie kirk assassination investigation

Months after the September 10, 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk while speaking at Utah Valley University, investigators and legal proceedings continue to leave key...

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September 30, 2025 Breaking

Dovid Akiva Shenkman case

Chicago · Illinois · United States

Dovid Akiva Shenkman, a former Chicago resident, pleaded guilty to federal charges involving possession and transportation of child pornography and was sentenced in September 2025 to near...

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August 16, 2025 Breaking

Arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich in the United States

On August 16, 2025, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an Israeli cybersecurity official and senior executive at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, as part o...

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June 10, 2025 Breaking

Operation Soteria Shield: 109 Children Rescued in Major Texas Crackdown

Texas · Houston · United States

In June 2025, a sweeping law enforcement initiative across Texas known as Operation Soteria Shield led to the rescue of 109 children and the arrest of 244 individuals suspected of involve...

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January 29, 2025 Breaking

Israeli Lev Tahor Leader Arrested in Guatemala

Guatemala City · Guatemala Department · Guatemala

Senior Lev Tahor Member Arrested in Guatemala Senior Lev Tahor Member Arrested in Guatemala Amid Human Trafficking Probe Guatemala City, Guatemala — On January...

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December 9, 2024 Breaking

Luigi mangione charged with murder of unitedhealthcare ceo

UnitedHealth Group Headquarters · Minnetonka · Minnesota · United States

On December 9, 2024, Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was fatally shot outside a Manhatta...

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October 12, 2024 Breaking

Philip Esformes Arrested Again After Trump Clemency

Miami · Florida · United States

Philip Esformes Arrested Again After Trump Clemency Miami, Florida — Philip Esformes, the Miami-based nursing home executive whose 20-year federal prison sentence for health care f...

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August 24, 2024 Breaking

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested At Le Bourget Airport In France During Criminal Investigation

Le Bourget Airport · Paris · Île-de-France · France

Pavel Durov Arrested By French Authorities Over Platform Allegations On August 24, 2024, French police arrested **Pavel Durov**, the Russian‑born co‑founder and CEO of the Tele...

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March 6, 2024 Finance

FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried sentenced for fraud

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse · New York City · New York · United States

Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was convicted in federal court in November 2023 on multiple counts of fr...

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December 12, 2023 Breaking

Sam Bankman Fried and the Collapse of FTX

Nassau · New Providence · Bahamas

Sam Bankman‑Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, became central to one of the largest financial collapses in the digital asset industry. In 2023, he was convicted of defraud...

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October 16, 2023 Breaking

Brussels shooting suspect escaped

Brussels · Belgium

Two Swedish nationals were killed and a third person was injured in a shooting in Brussels on October 16, 2023. The victims were in the Belgian capital for a football match between Belgiu...

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February 18, 2022 Breaking

Teacher sentenced in Louisiana child abuse case

Livingston Parish · Louisiana · United States

Cynthia Perkins, a former teacher in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in February 2022 to multiple charges related to child sexual abuse and tampering with food given to stude...

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July 2, 2020 Breaking

Arrest and Conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell

Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse · New York City · New York · United States

Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested on July 2, 2020, by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire, for her role in recruiting and groomin...

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June 6, 2019 Breaking

Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Scandal and Death

Metropolitan Correctional Center · New York City · New York · United States

Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier, was arrested on July 6, 2019, by federal authorities in New York for sex trafficking of minors. Epstein had previously faced charges in Florida in ...

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December 14, 2017 Wars & Conflicts

Palestinian Teen in Viral Image Charged Following Arrest in Hebron

Hebron · Hebron Governorate · Palestine

Palestinian Teen in Viral Image Charged Following Arrest in Hebron Israeli authorities charged 16-year-old Palestinian Fawzi al-Junaidi after his arrest in the occupied West Ba...

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October 10, 2017 Breaking

Arrest and Conviction of Harvey Weinstein

Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center · Los Angeles · California · United States

Harvey Weinstein, an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company, was arrested on October 10, 2017, in New York following numerous allegations of sexual har...

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June 25, 2017 Breaking

Former MP Rory Amon admits meeting 13-year-old boy in car park toilet case

Royal Courts of Justice · London · England · United Kingdom

Rory Amon, former New South Wales Liberal Party MP for Pittwater, appeared in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 2026 facing charges related to sexual offences involving a mino...

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January 17, 2017 Breaking

Ex-IDF General Ofek Buchris Admits Sexual Offenses In Plea Deal

Military Court · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Ofek Buchris Pleads Guilty To Sexual Offenses In Israeli Military Court On January 17, 2017, Brigadier General (res.) **Ofek Buchris**, a former officer in the Israel Defense F...

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January 29, 2016 Breaking

Arthur Rathburn and Tel Aviv

Grosse Pointe Park · Michigan · United States

Arthur Rathburn was the owner and operator of International Biological, Inc. (IBI), a Michigan company that supplied human cadavers and anatomical specimens for medical and dental trainin...

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August 8, 2014 Breaking

Israeli Polygamist Goel Ratzon Convicted Of Sex Crimes And Cleared Of Slavery Charge

Tel Aviv District Court · Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

Goel Ratzon Convicted Of Multiple Sexual Offenses And Acquitted Of Slavery Charge On August 8, 2014, the Tel Aviv District Court in Israel convicted **Goel Ratzon**, a self‑sty...

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November 8, 2013 Breaking

Rabbi Samuel Waldman Brooklyn arrest US

Brooklyn · New York · USA

Samuel Waldman is an individual who served as a rabbi and teacher at a girls’ seminary in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was associated with religious educational roles within a co...

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October 11, 2011 Breaking

Two Arrested Toronto Rabbi Fraud Case

Toronto · Ontario · Canada

In October 2011, Earl Seth David, a Toronto-based individual who had also used the name Avraham David and presented himself as a rabbi, was arrested in Toronto in connection with a large-...

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June 1, 2011 Breaking

Chief Rabbi Saul Kassin Probation Corruption Case

Trenton · New Jersey · USA

Rabbi Saul Kassin, a senior religious leader associated with the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in June 2011 to two years of unsupervised probation in connec...

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July 23, 2009 Breaking

Five Rabbis Arrested Corruption Money Laundering Organ Trade Case

New Jersey · USA

In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducted by the Federal Bur...

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June 29, 2009 Politics

Bernard Madoff Sentenced in Ponzi Scheme

United States

Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, a financier of Jewish faith, was sentenced on June 29, 2009, in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for operating the largest known Ponzi scheme in U.S...

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June 12, 2007 Breaking

Ofek Buchris Plea Conviction

Mount Herzl Military Cemetery · Jerusalem · Jerusalem District · Israel

Ofek Buchris was a senior officer in the Israel Defense Forces, serving as a brigadier general and commanding a major unit. During his military career, allegations of sexual misconduct we...

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February 1, 2005 Breaking

Operation Bid Rig investigation

New Jersey · Monmouth County · United States

Operation Bid Rig was a federal investigation into public corruption and related criminal activity in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Ser...

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January 1, 2005 Breaking

Samuel Little and media visibility

United States

Media coverage and public recognition of serial homicide have been examined by criminologists and researchers studying race, victim demographics, offender characteristics, and news report...

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October 20, 1973 Breaking

Zebra murders investigation

San Francisco · California · United States

The Zebra murders were a series of killings and shootings committed in San Francisco between October 1973 and April 1974. The attacks resulted in 14 deaths and seven or eight nonfatal inj...

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June 19, 1953 Wars & Conflicts

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage

Sing Sing Prison · Ossining · New York · United States

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage On June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, after being convicted of...

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October 1, 1942 Breaking

Charlie Chaplin and Joan Barry

Los Angeles · California · United States

Joan Barry was an American actress who became involved with Charlie Chaplin during the early 1940s. Their relationship later resulted in a highly publicized paternity dispute and a crimin...

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April 16, 1889 Breaking

Charlie Chaplin’s controversial life

London · England · United Kingdom

Charlie Chaplin was an English actor, filmmaker, composer, and producer who became one of the most prominent figures of twentieth-century cinema. His career included silent films, sound f...

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prosecutors

Navy ship rape claim dismissed

Hartmut Ebbing faces abuse allegations

Kendra Duggar faces criminal charges in Arkansas

Joseph Duggar arrested over alleged sexual misconduct

Louisiana mayor convicted in juvenile misconduct case

Pride Group Founder Jailed for Rape of 12-Year-Old Boy

Karl Jacobson faces embezzlement charges

Michael William Mohr charged with producing child pornography

U.S. ambassador urges belgium to halt prosecution of mohels in antwerp

Squatty Potty creator faces child pornography charges in Utah

Sam Bankman‑Fried Files Motion for New Trial in FTX Fraud Case

Former Salt Lake City Fire Department battalion chief Kelly J. Carter arrested on child sexual exploitation charges

Italy probes alleged “sniper tourism” in 1990s Bosnia

Beit Shemesh Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Spying for Iran

Israeli Cybersecurity Executive Itai Levi Convicted Of Multiple Child Sex Offenses

Avraham Gil avoids jail

IDF reservist convicted in large-scale online child sexual abuse case

Felon freed by trump sentenced again after new offenses

Brothers jailed for raping 12-year-old girl

Former Newton Rabbi Arrested Child Enticement Case

Ex‑Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Fit to Stand Trial, Prison Officials Say

Mordechai Yom Tov arrest

Trump Pardons Nursing Home Executive Schwartz

Unresolved questions remain in charlie kirk assassination investigation

Dovid Akiva Shenkman case

Arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich in the United States

Operation Soteria Shield: 109 Children Rescued in Major Texas Crackdown

Israeli Lev Tahor Leader Arrested in Guatemala

Luigi mangione charged with murder of unitedhealthcare ceo

Philip Esformes Arrested Again After Trump Clemency

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested At Le Bourget Airport In France During Criminal Investigation

FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried sentenced for fraud

Sam Bankman Fried and the Collapse of FTX

Brussels shooting suspect escaped

Teacher sentenced in Louisiana child abuse case

Arrest and Conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Scandal and Death

Palestinian Teen in Viral Image Charged Following Arrest in Hebron

Arrest and Conviction of Harvey Weinstein

Former MP Rory Amon admits meeting 13-year-old boy in car park toilet case

Ex-IDF General Ofek Buchris Admits Sexual Offenses In Plea Deal

Arthur Rathburn and Tel Aviv

Israeli Polygamist Goel Ratzon Convicted Of Sex Crimes And Cleared Of Slavery Charge

Rabbi Samuel Waldman Brooklyn arrest US

Two Arrested Toronto Rabbi Fraud Case

Chief Rabbi Saul Kassin Probation Corruption Case

Five Rabbis Arrested Corruption Money Laundering Organ Trade Case

Bernard Madoff Sentenced in Ponzi Scheme

Ofek Buchris Plea Conviction

Operation Bid Rig investigation

Samuel Little and media visibility

Zebra murders investigation

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage

Charlie Chaplin and Joan Barry

Charlie Chaplin’s controversial life

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested At Le Bourget Airport In France During Criminal Investigation